Starts and immediately, or after a while, exits

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shares
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Starts and immediately, or after a while, exits

Post by shares »

As per title,

I am trying to start "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VirtualBox.exe" and it generally works and I go about my business.

However, occasionally, it decides to simply exit after a few seconds or after a few more seconds. The main window does appear on screen and a list of snapshots with the "hourglass" however, cannot be interacted with, and then it exits.

It has done this many times in the past, then the problem goes away for a long time, now it has come back.

If anyone has any ideas?
Last edited by mpack on 13. Oct 2021, 15:09, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: Change "exists" to "exits", which I believe is the intention. PM me if not.
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Re: Starts and immediately, or after a while, exists

Post by mpack »

shares wrote: It has done this many times in the past, then the problem goes away for a long time, now it has come back.

If anyone has any ideas?
IME this is usually some overzealous third party AV on the host.

Failing that, I have seen similar problems in the past with third party drivers, e.g. for bluetooth. Sometimes they crash. I haven't seen this variant in a long time, since Windows has native drivers for most mundane items these days.
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