

This could mean that your Virtual Hard Disk or Boot Medium is empty (i.e. In other words, the Guest VM can't read the Virtual Hard Disk or Boot Medium you have attached to the VM to boot a Guest OS.

Just to confirm, this was a previously working VM, and you were not trying to start from a CD/DVD.

Please ZIP and attach the whole VBox.log. Also, you’ll need to make sure you’re using IDE as the storage controller if you want to minimize your chances of seeing this particular error message. System Halted.” error, you’ll need to ensure that the virtual machine is configured to boot from a real OS file (either an ISO file or a physical optical drive with a bootable OS install). Once the install is complete go ahead and cancel out of the VirtualBoot wizard that should still be open. There is a function that will check for VirtualBox and if it’s not found on the machine it will present a hyper-link so you can download and install VirtualBox to your system. Could not read from the boot medium system halted : virtualbox windows 10
