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Virtualbox Stopped Working

Posted: 16. Jan 2013, 07:33
by bobyera1
Hi All,

I had VirtualBox up and running on my Windows Vista Home Premium system for a couple of years. My system was acting sluggish today, so after I shut it down a couple of times, I get this when I try to start VirtualBox, Any Ideas on what I can do to fix it. Thanks in advance.

Failed to create the VirtualBox COM object.

The application will now terminate.



Start tag expected, '<' not found.

Location: 'C:\Users\Bob/.VirtualBox\VirtualBox.xml', line 1 (0), column 1.

D:\tinderbox\win-4.2\src\VBox\Main\src-server\VirtualBoxImpl.cpp[525] (long __thiscall VirtualBox::init(void)).

Result Code: E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component: VirtualBox
Interface: IVirtualBox {3b2f08eb-b810-4715-bee0-bb06b9880ad2}

Re: Virtualbox Stopped Working

Posted: 16. Jan 2013, 15:32
by Perryg
This error usually means that you need to re-install VirtualBox.

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Failed to create the VirtualBox COM object.
This indicates a corrupt VirtualBox.xml file.

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Start tag expected, '<' not found.
You can try to replace it with the VirtualBox.xml-prev but if it is affected as well you would need to restore from backup.