Flare VM installation keeps getting stuck in installing visualstudio2017

[quixottte]

What's the problem?

Dears,

My Flare VM installation keeps getting stuck at installing visualstudio2017 every time on VBox. I tried Windows 10 Pro and 11 Pro and it failed. I tried installing Visual Studio before hand and it did not solve anything.

Here is the logs.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Installing Flare-VM as instructed in the repo.

Environment

• VBox 7.1.6
• Windows 10 and 11 Pro

Additional Information

[1a1c:001b][2025-04-19T10:00:40] Download requested: https://aka.ms/vs/15/release/channel [1a1c:001b][2025-04-19T10:00:40] Error 0x8013153b: [1a1c:001b][2025-04-19T10:00:40] Could not update channel "https://aka.ms/vs/15/release/channel" at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task) at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Download.DownloadManagerAuthenticationProxy.<Download>d__27.MoveNext() --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task) at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.ChannelDownloader.<GetLatestChannelManifestAsync>d__7.MoveNext() --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task) at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.ChannelManager.<UpdateChannelManifestAsync>d__71.MoveNext() [1a1c:001c][2025-04-19T10:00:40] Error 0x8013153b: [1a1c:001c][2025-04-19T10:00:40] Could not update channel "https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/channel" at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task) at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Download.DownloadManagerAuthenticationProxy.<Download>d__27.MoveNext() --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task) at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.ChannelDownloader.<GetLatestChannelManifestAsync>d__7.MoveNext() --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task) at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.ChannelManager.<UpdateChannelManifestAsync>d__71.MoveNext() Warning: [1a1c:001b][2025-04-19T10:00:40] A task was canceled. Warning: [1a1c:001c][2025-04-19T10:00:40] A task was canceled. [1a1c:001c][2025-04-19T10:00:41] ManifestVerifier Result: Success [1a1c:001f][2025-04-19T10:00:41] WebClient error 'RequestCanceled' with 'https://aka.ms/vs/channels' - ExecuteWithRetryAsync failed along with a cancellation request Warning: [1a1c:001f][2025-04-19T10:00:41] Failed to get the HttpWebResponse while invoking a HEAD request against https://aka.ms/vs/channels:System.OperationCanceledException: The operation was canceled. at System.Threading.CancellationToken.ThrowOperationCanceledException() at System.Threading.CancellationToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested() at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Download.WebRequestService.<>c__DisplayClass9_0.<ExecuteWithRetryAsync>b__0(Object _) at System.Threading.Tasks.Task1.InnerInvoke()
at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Execute()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Download.DownloadManagerAuthenticationProxy.d__28.MoveNext()
[1a1c:001f][2025-04-19T10:00:41] Download requested: https://aka.ms/vs/channels
Warning: [1a1c:001f][2025-04-19T10:00:41] Failed to download channels file from https://aka.ms/vs/channels: A task was canceled.
[1a1c:0021][2025-04-19T10:00:41] WebClient error 'RequestCanceled' with 'https://aka.ms/vs/installer/latest/feed' - ExecuteWithRetryAsync failed along with a cancellation request
Warning: [1a1c:0021][2025-04-19T10:00:41] Failed to get the HttpWebResponse while invoking a HEAD request against https://aka.ms/vs/installer/latest/feed:System.OperationCanceledException: The operation was canceled.
at System.Threading.CancellationToken.ThrowOperationCanceledException()
at System.Threading.CancellationToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested()
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Download.WebRequestService.<>c__DisplayClass9_0.b__0(Object _) at System.Threading.Tasks.Task1.InnerInvoke() at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Execute() --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Download.DownloadManagerAuthenticationProxy.<MungeUriAsync>d__28.MoveNext() [1a1c:0021][2025-04-19T10:00:41] Download requested: https://aka.ms/vs/installer/latest/feed Warning: [1a1c:0022][2025-04-19T10:00:41] Failed to update the latest installer feed A task was canceled. [1a1c:0022][2025-04-19T10:00:41] ManifestVerifier Result: Success [1a1c:001a][2025-04-19T10:00:41] Status changed to NoUpdate [1a1c:0011][2025-04-19T10:00:41] ManifestVerifier Result: Success [1a1c:0018][2025-04-19T10:00:41] ManifestVerifier Result: Success [1a1c:0003][2025-04-19T10:00:43] Authenticode verification returned 0x00000000 for path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\setup.exe.

[quixottte]

Another issue. It seems that I have to press Enter every time it stops to continue.

[pranaykumar2]

hey quixottte, I'm aware of your issue, and try again installing it from scratch. If you again encounter it, Authenticode verification returned 0x00000000 for path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\setup.exe. just wait for 20-30 min., then it gets normal, and continue with the rest of the installation.

[Ana06]

@quixottte what do you mean with visualstudio2017? Do you mean the visualstudio.vm package or is it something else? I have installed the visualstudio.vm package locally several times in the last week and it was successfully installed it. Our CI has also been able to install it without issues recently: https://github.com/mandiant/VM-Packages/wiki/Daily-Failures. Note the package takes long to install and this is expected (we are planing to improve the documentation on this: mandiant/VM-Packages#1391). This is also the reason why we don't have it in the default configuration by default.

Please provide all the information requested in the bug issue template to ensure I am able to help as I don't understand the issue with the information provided. Concretely, provide:

• The output of VM-Get-Host-Info command
• The log files C:\ProgramData_VM\log.txt and C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs\chocolatey.log

In addition, please provide the list of installed packages, as visualstudio is not part of the default configuration.

[Ana06]

@pranaykumar2 I am also not sure I understand what you mean. Can you please elaborate?

[pranaykumar2]

I meant that the error @quixottte encountered will last for 20–30 minutes. All he needs to do is wait for a few minutes without interrupting the process.

[Ana06]

Thanks for the explanation @pranaykumar2. I am missing information to be sure I understand the issue as I said in my previous comment, but it seems from your response that there is not really a bug. Can we close the issue?

[pranaykumar2]

Yes, You can close the issue

[pandeytanuj01]

Hey, I am also facing the same issue. As per your solution, we have to wait for 20-30 min, but my VM crashes with this error: "kernel data inpage error". Please help me out. I tried installing it separately using this "choco install visualstudio2017-workload-vctools" but still got the same error "Authenticode verification returned 0x00000000 for path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\setup.exe." and VM crashed.