Failed to start the virtual machine

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Wuffo
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Failed to start the virtual machine

Post by Wuffo »

Trying to start ubuntu guest on vista for the first time results in an immediate error:

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Unknown error creating VM (VERR_ACCESS_DENIED).
Result Code: E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component: Console
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Any ideas?
Sasquatch
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Post by Sasquatch »

Any more info? What did you try? Do you have read and write privileges on the machine folder? Please see the Forum Posting Guide for help providing information so we can help you.
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Wuffo
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Post by Wuffo »

Yeah, I thought it might be a permissions problem, so I tried running virtualbox as administrator. Same error. I tried changing a number of the settings that were questionable. No change.

Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be many things to try at this early stage - and the error message doesn't tell me much. I was hoping that somebody would recognize it and have an easy solution.

Here are some extra details:

**Vista on a thinkpad laptop
**Trying to use an ubuntu iso image file (downloaded directly from the website)
**I'm happy to relate any settings, but I'm not sure which others are relevant.

Is anybody having success using virtualbox on vista?
cm1
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Post by cm1 »

In your XML File search for <ExtraData>
Paste following line

<ExtraDataItem name="VBoxInternal/DBGC/Enabled" value="0"/>

Now try it again

mfg
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Wuffo
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Post by Wuffo »

Whoa, that did it!
Thanks so much.
mpack
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Post by mpack »

cm1 wrote:In your XML File search for <ExtraData>
Paste following line
<ExtraDataItem name="VBoxInternal/DBGC/Enabled" value="0"/>
Any chance of an explanation of what that does? I dislike "magic" solutions.
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