What have you tried:
I installed latest Kali in latest VirtualBox.
I installed the everything option.
I installed some other things, no problems with any of it.
Today I tried using openVAS. I ran the setup and the check. Check said everything looks good.
I run gvm-start and when Firefox comes up, I get the prompt to log into Greenbone.
I do that and the entire VM instantly freezes solid.
I have to click the VirtualBox X close and select power the machine off to shut Kali down.
What is the error:
There is no error - it’s a hard freeze of the entire VM.
What device is this on:
Latest VirtualBox is running on latest openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot as of 20250620.
Kali is running latest VirtualBox openSUSE version 7.1.10.
Hardware is AMD Ryzen 9 5950X with 64GB RAM.
I have no idea where to start looking for a solution.
When you first launch greenbone and it opens browser, that is the point where greenbone updates and populates its database, which can take a few minutes to an hour depending on the system.
If your running in a VM does the VM have enough extra hard drive space free, enough RAM and CPU allocated?
In virtual box set CPU cores to max of 50% of the physical hardware cores and same with RAM 50% physical RAM (or even a bit less if the host is windows)
As for virtual disk, ‘everything’ installs typically need 120GB or so and swap should be roughly 1.5 times the size of RAM you have allocated to the VM
So it may just need more time to respond, or its running out of room to create the database?
It’s not just the Greenbone that freezes, it’s the entirety of Firefox and the VM. Nothing can be made to function. I understand the Greenbone sync takes a while but I see no evidence that anything is happening.
When I run Firefox by itself, there are no problems - it works normally. It’s only when it opens via the gvm-start that everything freezes.
It can also freeze either before or after I enter the Greenbone login.
Oh, and I have the VM set to 2GB RAM and 2 processors. I probably should increase that. The VM takes up 57GB of space, and has a max of 80GB dynamically allocated, but I have 1.5TB available on that disk, so no problem there.
If you read the Kali install docs you would find that a minimum of 4GB RAM is recommended for Kali so that should be increased anyway, and as you have a 64GB system you could be far more generous than that..
I appreciate that launching greenbone is freezing everything, are you sure you have it all set up correctly?
You know what, forget it. I dumped that Kali clone, I will update the CPU and RAM (already did, actually), and I’ll forget messing with openVAS until I need to use it. I haven’t studied the docs, I was merely following some Youtube videos on setting up Kali, and my guess is something was left out.
Thanks for the assistance.
it is possible to get greenbone working, though personally I don’t find it adds anything I need, I find nuclei to be far better for my needs, and it is already installed in Kali;