After updating from 4.3.10 to 4.3.18 can not start any virtual machine with Win8.1 x86, Win10 x64, Ubuntu 14.04 x64, Fedora x86 and new CentOS 7 x64.
Host: Windows 7 SP1 x64
Antivirus: Avast 2014.9.0.2021 (tried with both enabled and disabled from tray icon)
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VirtualBox - Error In supR3HardenedWinReSpawn
--------------------------- NtCreateFile(\Device\VBoxDrvStub) failed: 0xc0000034 STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND (0 retries)
Driver is probably stuck stopping/starting. Try 'sc.exe query vboxdrv' to get more information about its state. Rebooting may actually help. (rc=-101)
Make sure the kernel module has been loaded successfully.
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Abort
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Failed to open a session for the virtual machine win8.1.
The virtual machine 'win8.1' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1). More details may be available in 'E:\VirtualBox_VMs\win8.1\Logs\VBoxStartup.log'.
Result Code: E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component: Machine
Interface: IMachine {480cf695-2d8d-4256-9c7c-cce4184fa048}
This is an installer problem we haven't been able to fix yet. Did you try the reboot advice in the error message? If you don't want to reboot, you may pick up clues from this post here where @quiettime describes how he worked around it: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=63556&start=180#p300962
Earlier, I have installed the newest VB on top of the old one. Now I just uninstalled VB from Control Panel and after rebooting I installed it again. So far everything seems to work.
Thanks.
I found that in my case, when i did a sc quesry vboxdrv, it showed stopped. Trying to start it via sc.exe came up with path not found. Looking in the registry (HKLM\system\currentcontrolset\services\vboxdrv) showed the path to be \??\C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxDrv.sys, but VBoxDrv.sys does not exist there. I pointed the key to \??\C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\drivers\vboxdrv\VBoxDrv.sys, and the service started fine. Not sure what happened. I also uninstalled KB3004394, but that didn't fix the issue.
I had issues for a few days now - one of my VMs got mysteriously wiped, and virtualbox was in a non-functioning state. I think my laptop rebooted because of patch tuesday, but i didn't do anything
I seem to be having the same issue, and want to second that it seems to have been caused by a windows update. My system installed 17 updates and then my virtual machines stopped working. I know that the VM is ok since I copied it to an unpatched machine and it works there. For me, I get that vboxdrv service does not exist when I use the sc.exe program. Any ideas on how to fix this would be much appreciated.
The KB 3004394 update that was dated December 10, 2014 can cause additional problems on computers that are running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. This includes the inability to install future updates. This new update is available to remove KB 3004394 from your computer.
Do NOT send me Personal Messages (PMs) for troubleshooting, they are simply deleted.
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If you obfuscate any information requested, I will obfuscate my response. These are virtual UUIDs, not real ones.
It does not show as an available update on my Win7 VM, but I had NOT applied KB 3004394, maybe that's why. It may show up as an available one only to those that have had the culprit installed already.
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I had not installed KB 3004394, but tried the fix anyway. Note that after downloading the patch from Microsoft, you need to go to your updates from the control panel and install it. Just running the .exe from Microsoft only stages it for installation. Once I did that, I reinstalled VirtualBox (it failed), installed it again (it worked), and am back in business! Thanks to everyone for the help and informative posts.
THANK YOU !!!
I really appreciate the suggestions posted copied below. It looks like the newer install of virtualbox has moved the drivers to another folder level ".\drivers\vboxdrv\" :
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Re: [VB 4.3.18] Error In supR3HardenedWinReSpawn
Postby bender12 » 11. Dec 2014, 20:34
I found that in my case, when i did a sc quesry vboxdrv, it showed stopped. Trying to start it via sc.exe came up with path not found. Looking in the registry (HKLM\system\currentcontrolset\services\vboxdrv) showed the path to be \??\C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxDrv.sys, but VBoxDrv.sys does not exist there. I pointed the key to \??\C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\drivers\vboxdrv\VBoxDrv.sys, and the service started fine. Not sure what happened. I also uninstalled KB3004394, but that didn't fix the issue.
I had issues for a few days now - one of my VMs got mysteriously wiped, and virtualbox was in a non-functioning state. I think my laptop rebooted because of patch tuesday, but i didn't do anything
You should try to install VCRedist 2010 (pedending on your architecture, of course: x86 or x64/both). Worked for me, while solutions from this topic and from another topic titled "Cannot access the kernel driver" on this forum unfortunately didn't help. Being new to this forum, unfortunately I can't post the link of the other topic