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Basically as title, so if I have a VM crash for any reason, like a BSOD or whatever, you know, Windows stuff well instead of being able to just do a "reset VM" or what not, the entire VM locks up too. I then need to do a xkill on it.

Then after that when I go to relaunch, instead of opening as normal, it opens two instances of VirtualBox in the task bar but no windows show up. I end up having to kill -9 the VBox related processes to get rid of the taskbar entries.

The only way to get back to work is to have to reboot the entire machine.

Is there a way around this, like a way to fully reset Virtualbox?

Bump? Hoping someone knows a fix for this issue. I've had it happen on several Linux distros. Linux Mint 18,19, and Kubuntu, and several GUI variations of all 3.

Virtualbox runs its main Virtualbox window, vboxmanage commands, and all guests atop a service called VboxSVC. One VboxSVC runs all guests. You can reset Virtualbox by killing VboxSVC. Killing VboxSVC kills all guests and the main window or any running vboxmanage commands, so be careful.

It is unusual that VboxSVC should seize. I wonder if Virtualbox is installed properly, or if there is a conflict on the host OS. I would not know how to fix it though.

BTW, any relation to Buck Rotgut's archenemy?

Ok will try to kill those off next time and see how it goes. Worse case scenario I'll make a script.

I've had this happen on several distros so far, the way it's installed is just using apt-get. So not sure why it does this.

I think I've used the name Red Squirrel since before that movie was around haha, just picked out randomly one day and it stuck. I am red headed so it kinda fits.