I created a virtual machine a month ago and haven't changed any configuration files but now when I try to make another VM on my PC its shows me this message.
same message is shown when I tried to clone my existing virtual machine
Failed to register the virtual machine worker.
Failed to replace 'C:\Users\HP\.VirtualBox\VirtualBox.xml' with 'C:\Users\HP\.VirtualBox\VirtualBox.xml-tmp': -38 (Access denied.).
F:\tinderbox\win-5.2\src\VBox\Main\src-server\VirtualBoxImpl.cpp[4284] (long __cdecl VirtualBox::i_saveSettings(void)).
Result Code: E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component: VirtualBoxWrap
Interface: IVirtualBox {9570b9d5-f1a1-448a-10c5-e12f5285adad}
Problem registering virtual machine
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mpack
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Re: Problem registering virtual machine
This seems quite straightforward to me.
VirtualBox is trying to manipulate it's own files in it's .VirtualBox folder, for user "HP". But, for some reason it doesn't have permission to modify those files.
That will be because the user account you're currently logged in as doesn't have that permission, or else some of the files in that folder have been marked read-only. If you really are logged in as user "HP" then Google for how to fix Windows permissions problems.
VirtualBox is trying to manipulate it's own files in it's .VirtualBox folder, for user "HP". But, for some reason it doesn't have permission to modify those files.
That will be because the user account you're currently logged in as doesn't have that permission, or else some of the files in that folder have been marked read-only. If you really are logged in as user "HP" then Google for how to fix Windows permissions problems.