CAnt open VB 7 on Mac OS Catalina

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Mats_o_b
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Joined: 13. Mar 2023, 11:31

CAnt open VB 7 on Mac OS Catalina

Post by Mats_o_b »

Hi
When trying to open VirtualBox on iMac with Mac OS Catalina I get this:
Failed to acquire the VirtualBox COM object.

The application will now terminate.



Document is empty.

Location: '/Volumes/Soderang T7/matsbengtsson 1/Library/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml', line 1 (0), column 1.

/Users/vbox/tinderbox/mac-rel/src/VBox/Main/src-server/VirtualBoxImpl.cpp[830] (nsresult VirtualBox::init()).

Result Code:NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0X80004005)
Component:VirtualBoxWrap
Interface:IVirtualBox {7682d5eb-f00e-44f1-8ca2-99d08b1cd607}
Callee:IVirtualBoxClient {d2937a8e-cb8d-4382-90ba-b7da78a74573}


How do I solve this?
Regards
Mats B
scottgus1
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Joined: 30. Dec 2009, 20:14
Primary OS: MS Windows 10
VBox Version: PUEL
Guest OSses: Windows, Linux

Re: CAnt open VB 7 on Mac OS Catalina

Post by scottgus1 »

Reboot the host so no Virtualbox processes are running.
Go to "/Volumes/Soderang T7/matsbengtsson 1/Library/VirtualBox/"
Rename "Virtualbox.xml" to "Virtualbox.xml-bad"
Rename "Virtualbox.xml-prev" to "Virtualbox.xml"
Try Virtualbox again.
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