Stuck on "Creating process for virtual machine..."

[refillable]

Hello,

I just came across this program and I'm quite excited to get it running. I downloaded it from the official download site and set up everything as I wanted. However, I am not able to run the program correctly. I was never able to get the VM running. Do you have any idea how to fix this?

It's a pity that I can't send pictures of what's going on. I hope you know what I meant. It is stuck on that dialogue forever (no progress at all). I've even left the computer running to sleep and there's basically no difference.

[Perryg]

Minimal information needed to be able to help

[refillable]

Oracle VM ViritualBox Version 5.0.20 r106931, No guest installed
Windows XP 32-bit, 1024 MB of RAM, 64 MB of VRAM
As for the log file, there isn't "$HOME/VirtualBox VMs/{machinename}/Logs" anywhere on my PC. Sorry for that.

[scottgus1]

Refillable, take a good careful look at the help file again. "$HOME" is not a valid path to anything in any operating system, Windows or otherwise. "$HOME" is a placeholder the help file writers used for what really should be typed in its place, which varies by operating system. The actual text required for your OS is above the discussion of $HOME, in section 10.1.1.

And after you figure out what to type you will still need to interpret. Notice those forward slashes in "$HOME/VirtualBox VMs/{machinename}/Logs"? Even if $HOME meant something in Windows, you will know that the forward slash isn't used in Windows path names. Windows uses backslashes: \

The easiest way to get the logs in question is to follow this advice in the link Perry posted:

right click the guest in the VirtualBox main manager and select show log

The "vboxhardening.log" and the regular Vbox.logs will be there for saving to a convenient place for zipping.

[refillable]

Alright, thanks for clearing that out for me. I thought that was for something else.

Looking forward for your assistance.

[mpack]

I'd guess that "wintab32" may be the problem. It has been a problem before :-

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=64762&start=15

[scottgus1]

There's also an error on user32.dll. Mpack, you know more about these logs than I, is the user32.dll significant?

Refillable, do you have a theme hack installed?

[mpack]

I would generally ignore system and VirtualBox modules until the "foreign" ones have been eliminated. User32.dll is part of the OS, so I'd ignore it for now certainly.

Besides, that user32 error is weird. Error, rc=0. A result code of zero typically ignores non-error.

[refillable]

Thanks for the quick response guys. Keep in mind that I never did any changes on the theme or installed any mods/hacks at all. Completely Vanilla, straight from the official site.

I did skim through the article that "mpack" linked. There has never been any "KB3004394" update installed on my current host OS. I also tried many OSes (on the VM), including Linux's, Mac OS X's another Windows such as Windows 2000 and 7 (32 and 64 bit) and I still have the exact same issue.

[scottgus1]

The hack to which I'm referring is a Windows theme hack which would go into the host OS, not a Virtualbox add-in. They're used to add other colors etc to the usual Windows themes, or to put a standard Start button in Windows 8. They involve changing core Windows files with re-programmed and usually unsigned versions that allow altered themes to be used. They were fairly common for Windows 7 and 8. Do you have one of these installed?

if you had the faulty updates you'd have dozens of errors with "Lacks WinVerifyTrust" all over the place in the log. You don't, as I see, so you theoretically should be good on the updates angle.

Are you running Windows 7?

Also, please see if you have a file "C:\Windows\System32\wintab32.dll" in your Windows\System32 folder?

[refillable]

Hello. I'm running Windows 7 64-Bit. My Host OS isn't modded either, so I don't think that's the cause.

There is no trace of wintab32.dll on my system32.

[scottgus1]

OK, wintab32.dll is a red herring. I have errors regarding this file in my Win10/VB5 hardening logs for guests that open fine. I post one below for reference. The "error opening" error is because the file doesn't exist. Something tells the Virtualbox hardening system to check this file and the system can't find it, so the error appears. It does not appear to stop the guest from opening, at least on my machine.

Scott's good Vboxhardening.zip

(21.97 KiB) Downloaded 23 times

This brings us back to user32.dll. It's bad somehow, and seems to be the only thing preventing your guest from opening:

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115c.9e8: supR3HardenedScreenImage/Imports: cache hit (Unknown Status -22900 (0xffffa68c)) on \Device\HarddiskVolume1\Windows\System32\user32.dll
115c.9e8: Error (rc=0):
115c.9e8: supR3HardenedScreenImage/Imports: cached rc=Unknown Status -22900 (0xffffa68c) fImage=1 fProtect=0x0 fAccess=0x0 cHits=16 \Device\HarddiskVolume1\Windows\System32\user32.dll

Here's some info on my user32.dll (Windows 7sp1 Pro host, with all updates)

user32.dll info.png (25.55 KiB) Viewed 6565 times

[refillable]

May I know what should I be looking for on User32.dll? I can't see anything wrong with it.

I'm going to try this program in either my second PC or my brother's laptop. I'll tell you guys what happens.

[scottgus1]

I'm not sure what else to suggest. Does you user32.dll's version info, date & size match what I have in my screenshot? Here's some more data:

user32.dll info 1.png (63.71 KiB) Viewed 6552 times

Here's a Onedrive link to my user32.dll in a zip file (Couldn't post it on the forum, it's too big even when zipped) https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=1 ... file%2czip
Try comparing mine with yours using FC in a command window.

Aside form that, another suggestion: The other PCs may also have issues, depending on what has been installed on them in times past. A possible test, if you have another drive you could use, is do a test install of your OS on your present PC, and then just Virtualbox, and see if you can run a guest. (You'd have a few days to use the fresh OS install without activating it with MS.)

[refillable]

Actually, I installed Vbox on my second PC and BINGO. It's working like a charm... I'm still not sure what's wrong but here's the screenshot of my main PC's user32.dll and my second PC's user32.dll.



As you can see there, the file is very old (coincidentally this was created on my 12th birthday). Could that be the issue?



This is my second PC's user32.dll. It's even older... Strange! They're the same version, however.

Do you want the files at well? Do you think that would help?