E_FAIL (0x80004005)

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Wassim Kayrala
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Re: E_FAIL (0x80004005)

Post by Wassim Kayrala »

In the Cyclance logs though, VBox was never blocked at all. There's no indication that it is the problem or VBox was ever blocked at all.
scottgus1
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Re: E_FAIL (0x80004005)

Post by scottgus1 »

Logs only log what the program is designed to log.

The next step in your efforts to get Virtualbox running again has been given. It is up to you to decide if you want Virtualbox to run again and to act on the advice. If you do not act on the advice, we may not be able to help further.
Wassim Kayrala
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Re: E_FAIL (0x80004005)

Post by Wassim Kayrala »

A lot of other users on this forum have said that they have whitelisted VBox in Cyclance and then VBox started working again. They didn't uninstall it at all.
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Re: E_FAIL (0x80004005)

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OK. Perhaps the Hyper-V hypervisor can work on your computer?

There is nothing else we can do.
Wassim Kayrala
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Re: E_FAIL (0x80004005)

Post by Wassim Kayrala »

I even disabled the Hyper-V and it was still not working.
scottgus1
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Re: E_FAIL (0x80004005)

Post by scottgus1 »

The Hyper-V suggestion was that you might stop using Virtualbox and start using Hyper-V for your VMs instead.
Wassim Kayrala wrote:A lot of other users on this forum have said that they have whitelisted VBox in Cyclance [Citation Needed]
Wassim Kayrala wrote:I've been using VBox with AV for the last two years but then all of a sudden things stopped working.
scottgus1 wrote:Cylance pushed an update
recently
that killed Virtualbox
Since you will not troubleshoot by getting IT to uninstall Cylance for a test, I reiterate:
scottgus1 wrote:There is nothing else we can do.
Wassim Kayrala
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Re: E_FAIL (0x80004005)

Post by Wassim Kayrala »

My VMs are working now. Looks like the IT team did something on the Cyclance software and now both Cyclance and VBox are running with no issues.
scottgus1
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Re: E_FAIL (0x80004005)

Post by scottgus1 »

Good, glad IT figured it out!
Wassim Kayrala
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Re: E_FAIL (0x80004005)

Post by Wassim Kayrala »

They added a ton of additional directory paths, then doubled the exclusion list by writing out every single relative path and adding wildcards
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