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I am no way an expert at linux as I've only been really using it the last week or so. I have ubuntu OS and I wanted to setup a windows XP pro VM using VirtualBox (recommended by colleague) I have never used this either so you can image how frustrating this is all getting

I downloaded and installed the linux build of VirtualBox and managed to start the app (funny enough this wasnt available via the menu system on ubuntu and I had to type "VirtualBox" into the console to start it. I inserted my XP pro disc and managed to get through to installl. Windows all worked and I began to install my normal apps on to the VM last night. It was when I got up and switched the pc back on that I had problems.

First of all I went to the console to type virtualBox but it couldnt find it anymore and aksed me to run this line: sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose which resulted in some package installs but I recieved the error;

failed to create VirtualBox COM object
The app will now terminate
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Could not load the settings file '/home/trend/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml'.
Cannot convert settings from version '1.6-linux'.
The source version is not supported.


Result Code:
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component:
VirtualBox
Interface:
IVirtualBox {557a07bc-e6ae-4520-a361-4a8493199137}
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I uninstalled all the virtualbox stuff (read another post on here to do that) and reinstalled all VirtualBox stuff through the package manager.

The VirtualBox app now has an icon in my menu system which is great and it seems to load up but when I go to select my windows XP pro install it says;

(shows Windows XP pro: powered off then I select it and click run)

Sun xVM VirtualBox SDL GUI 2.0.4_OSE built Oct 26 2008 19:30:08
Failed to create VirtualBox object! Error info:
Could not load the settings file '/home/trend/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml'.
Cannot convert settings from version '1.6-linux'.
The source version is not supported
(component VirtualBox).

Ok, I think that maybe something got screwed up somewhere so I try to delete it and I cant even do that! So now I have a 10G partition that I cant get back and a VM that doesnt want to work and I cant understand what I did wrong... should I never power off my pc or something? :p

Cheers
Dal[/quote]

Solved!

I followed this doc to the letter and everything is working again and I may even have solved my USB stick problem while I was at it.

Recommended read/bookmark;

http://www.samlesher.com/ubuntu/virtual ... epid-ibex/

Thanks
Hope this helps someone