@nontrivial said in Ubuntu Touch Mainline Generic amd64 Issue:

Download latest ubuntu-touch-mainline-generic-amd64.img.xz file from https://ci.ubports.com/job/rootfs/job/rootfs-generic-amd64/
Uncompress it with unxz
Convert to VirtualBox VDI disk image: VBoxManage convertdd disk.img disk.vdi

The boot process appears to hang on "Starting virtual private network daemon".

By the way, I know this is a thread from four years ago, but if you web search running UBports image in VirtualBox, it leads here, so I thought I would update it to help the next person save some time...

After you run the convert line:
$ VBoxManage convertfromraw /home/alaskalinuxuser/snap/utqemu/common/ubuntu-touch-mainline-generic-amd64.img ./ubports.vdi --format vdi

And you try to launch it in VirtualBox, you will still hang at Starting virtual private network daemon, but the real issue is the graphic card settings, as @hacker1024 pointed out, but didn't offer the solution. What worked for me was:

Display settings in VB:
Video Memory 32 MB
Graphics Controller VMSVGA
Enable 3D acceleration
RDS and Recording (don't matter, but I use) disabled.

Setting the RAM to 1536MB and using the converted VDI drive seems to work great for me. Hopefully that helps the next person....