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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?

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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?

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

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

Now try it again

mfg
cm1

Whoa, that did it!
Thanks so much.

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.