Failed to open a session

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Novie
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Failed to open a session

Post by Novie »

Virtual Box seemed to work fine now I can't get it to start up windows XP .....Help
The host is windows 7 32bit the following is the error message I get.
Failed to open a session for the virtual box machine windows xp
Failed to load VMMRO.rO
(VERR_LDR_MISMATCH_NATIVE
Result Code:
E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component:
Console
Interface:
IConsole {1968b7d3-e3bf-4ceb-99e0-cb7c913317bb}

Well I tried adding another virtual machine that is linux but I got this error also.

Result Code:
E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component:
Console
Interface:
IConsole {1968b7d3-e3bf-4ceb-99e0-cb7c913317bb}
Perryg
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Re: Failed to open a session

Post by Perryg »

This issue is rare but I have seen it a couple of times here. See if these links can assist you.

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=34542
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9737
Novie
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Re: Failed to open a session

Post by Novie »

By following the following suggestion I got VB to work at least for now thanks
Re: Windows 7 VERR_LDR_MISMATCH_NATIVE

Postby csylvain » 7. Jul 2011, 05:18
someone was having a similar problem with Win7 and Virtualbox 3.2.8 in 2010.

the answer appears to be found by going to C:\USERS\<username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files
and then rmdir /s Oracle

the contents there are created by running Virtualbox without Administrator privilege and can safely be deleted.
the new version of Virtualbox will create new files there, if needed.
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