If you are reading this, you might probably encountered the following error while performing the sample analysis in Cuckoo,
Error starting Virtual Machine / VBoxManage error.
This error happens when there is some communication issue between the guest and host or with the VM snapshot.
The network configuration of the guest VM should be set as "Host only network" and verify the connectivity between the host and Guest by pinging each other. If that is fine, then check the guest VM snapshot.
In my case, i had multiple snapshot and the one Cuckoo was invoking creates the issue. What i did was, i deleted all the existing snapshots and created a clean snapshot, also did a graceful shutdown of the Guest VM (Windows 7 in my case).
Also noticed that, while running cuckoo, it try to load the VM snapshot named base2. Instead of editing any configurations, i just named the snapshot "base2".
Then i put a sample on Cuckoo for analysis. The process completed without any issues.
We can see that the communication with the Guest VM was happening properly and the task has been completed successfully.