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Hi

Sorry if my question is a bit vague or obvious. New to this.

I badly need to run an old XP programme on Kubuntu 16. I went through VB setup but get following error when I opened VB. I have added attachment to post

Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Windows XP.

The virtual machine 'Windows XP' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1).

Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: MachineWrap
Interface: IMachine {f30138d4-e5ea-4b3a-8858-a059de4c93fd}

What version of VirtualBox did you install and where did you get the install from?

Version 5.0.20 r106931

I got from virtualbox website in downloads

dmesg output attached

Thanks

See if SecureBoot is enabled in the host bios and if so disable it.

You can fix this but it is a Host signing issue and as such would need to be fixed on the host.

Thanks

Now sure what this means. How would I do this?

Regards

Brian

See your PC manufacture documentation on how to boot to bios and how to disable SecureBoot.

Thanks

I did this but still get same problem. Also tried to create 32-bit XP as well as Windows 7 but no luck

Did you also re-compile the VBox kernel modules?

elevated user:

rcvboxdrv setup

Or just re-install.

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