issue starting vm

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tony10111
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Joined: 2. Apr 2018, 07:22

issue starting vm

Post by tony10111 »

hi am having this error
Failed to open virtual machine located in D:/ec01/ec01/ec01.vbox.

Start tag expected, '<' not found.

Location: 'D:\ec01\ec01\ec01.vbox', line 1 (0), column 1.

F:\tinderbox\win-6.1\src\VBox\Main\src-server\MachineImpl.cpp[503] (long __cdecl Machine::initFromSettings(class VirtualBox *,const class com::Utf8Str &,const class com::Guid *)).

Result Code: E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component: MachineWrap
Interface: IMachine {85632c68-b5bb-4316-a900-5eb28d3413df}
Callee: IVirtualBox {d0a0163f-e254-4e5b-a1f2-011cf991c38d}
scottgus1
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Posts: 20965
Joined: 30. Dec 2009, 20:14
Primary OS: MS Windows 10
VBox Version: PUEL
Guest OSses: Windows, Linux

Re: issue starting vm

Post by scottgus1 »

Reboot the host so no Virtualbox processes are running.
Go to 'D:\ec01\ec01'
Rename "ec01.vbox" to "ec01.vbox-bad"
Rename "ec01.vbox-prev" to "ec01.vbox"
Try Virtualbox again.
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