According to this blog from Oracle:
On Unix-like systems (Linux, Solaris), this is "$HOME/.VirtualBox/Machines/<vm name>/Logs"However, there is no .VirtualBox inside my $HOME directory.
user@linux:~$ sudo find / -name vbox.log
user@linux:~$ 1 Answer
That blog seems out of date. I do not have ~/.VirtualBox either. There are other VirtualBox logs in ~/.config/VirtualBox although not the VBox.log machine logs.
[user@Linux ~]$ ls ~/.config/VirtualBox/
compreg.dat selectorwindow.log.10 selectorwindow.log.4 selectorwindow.log.7 vbox-ssl-cacertificate.crt VBoxSVC.log.2 VBoxSVC.log.5 VirtualBox.xml
selectorwindow.log selectorwindow.log.2 selectorwindow.log.5 selectorwindow.log.8 VBoxSVC.log VBoxSVC.log.3 VBoxSVC.log.6 VirtualBox.xml-prev
selectorwindow.log.1 selectorwindow.log.3 selectorwindow.log.6 selectorwindow.log.9 VBoxSVC.log.1 VBoxSVC.log.4 VBoxSVC.log.7 xpti.dat
[user@Linux ~]$If you check the VirtualBox User Manual it says :
Every time Oracle VM VirtualBox starts up a VM, a so-called release log file is created, containing lots of information about the VM configuration and runtime events. The log file is called VBox.log and resides in the VM log file folder. Typically this will be a directory as follows:
$HOME/VirtualBox VMs/{machinename}/Logs
If you change the Machine Folder when creating a new VM they will be in a different place. For example if you create a VM like this :
Name : superuser
Machine Folder : /tmp/Temp
After starting machine you will find the VBox.log log(s) in /tmp/Temp/superuser/Logs/
[user@Linux ~]$ ls /tmp/Temp/superuser/Logs/
VBox.log VBox.log.1 VBox.log.2
