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I am running Mandriva 2009.0 host. AMD 64 Athlon uP. I was using VBox 2.06 working stable. I use the "All Distributions AMD64" download version to give me full USB support which the OSE version does not. Yesterday, I upgraded to VBox 2.1 downloaded from "All distributions AMD64" file name VirtualBox-2.1.0-41146-Linux_amd64.run. Version 2.1 appeared to work and I installed the guest additions. My guest WinXP worked, but I noticed that I couldn't access any USB devices. I shut down the WinXP guest. The USB devices were not listed when I tried to add them in the VBox GUI. From a terminal, I did a VBoxManage list usbhost to get a listing of my connected USB devices. I printed that out. Then I went back in to the VBox GUI to set up USB filters for those devices. As soon as I added one, the others became visible. I added the others (4 total) and shutdown the VBox GUI. Re-booted Linux and tried to bring back up VBox and start my WinXP guest. The VBox interface won't even start to show. I immediately get an error message.

VirtualBox Critical error
Failed to create the VirtualBox COM Object
The application will now terminate

Callee RC: NS_ERROR_FACTORY_NOT_REGISTERED (0x80040154)

I checked this forum for possible causes and came up with similar problems which were resolved by deleting the /home/user/.VirtualBox directory and letting VBox build a new one when it restarts. I renamed my .VirtualBox directory and VBox made a new one, but that didn't help. I renamed my /opt/VirtualBox-2.1.0 directory and re-installed VBox v2.1. again, but I still get the same error. Checking the VBox.log file doesn't help because VBox doesn't get far enough before it crashes to make a log file.

Any suggestions to resolve this?
Thanks.

Please remove your current VB and install the package for Mandriva instead. There are distribution specific builds and it's almost always a good idea to get those instead of a generic installer.

I removed all previous versions of VBox. I installed the correct VBox v2.1.0 OSE from the Mandriva repositories. I re-booted between removing VBox and installing.
I searched the entire drive and all VBox directories were gone after I removed VBox.
I renamed /home/user/.VirtualBox so VBox would make a new one.

I get the same error as before.

There must be a VBox related file left somewhere that's messing it up.

I got this fixed and VBox working again.
I tried to start the VM using the command,
"VBoxManage startvm WinXP"
When I do that, I get this returned.

Wrong owner (0) of '/tmp/.vbox-louie-ipc'.
Wrong owner (0) of '/tmp/.vbox-louie-ipc'.
[!] Failed to create the VirtualBox object!
[!] Primary RC = NS_ERROR_FACTORY_NOT_REGISTERED (0x80040154) - Class not registered
[!] Most likely, the VirtualBox COM server is not running or failed to start.
[louie@localhost VirtualBox-2.1.0]$


/tmp/.vbox-louie-ipc is a directory that's empty. It's owned by root. I changed owner to me (louie) and that did the trick. I can start the XP VM either by VBoxManage startvm WinXP, or by starting the VBox GUI and working from there.

I settled on the VBox 2.1.0 general Linux AMD64 version. Works fine and gives me USB support which the Mandriva OSE version does not do.

There is a Mandriva package on the website. http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualb ... 1.i586.rpm for the mandriva 2008 package.