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Failed to open a session for the virtual machine
Posted: 11. Jan 2018, 21:18
by dragan
I've been using VirtalBox for a year on the Ubuntu 16.04 system and I've been doing everything ok, but today I can not start (when I click on the start, I only get this error Failed to open a session for the virtual machine
Please if you can help me I do not have much experience with this.
thanks a lot
Re: Failed to open a session for the virtual machine
Posted: 11. Jan 2018, 21:31
by socratis
VirtualBox VM 5.0.40_Ubuntu r115130 linux.amd64 (Apr 20 2017 06:58:05) release log
You're using the Ubuntu's fork version of VirtualBox. You can either ask in their forums for help, or completely remove/uninstall/delete/purge their version and install the official version from the Downloads section of VirtualBox (
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads).
If you applied the recent updates, you most probably have to update to the
latest test build: ≥120181 for 5.2.x (or ≥120178 for 5.1.x) that contains the fix.
Re: Failed to open a session for the virtual machine
Posted: 12. Jan 2018, 01:16
by dragan
thanks a lot on the answer
I installed the version of how you wrote me, but now I get a mistake
thanks very much for your help again