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Message 44361 - Posted: 22 Feb 2021, 2:02:03 UTC

HI i hope you can help me with this

on starting Virtual Box i get a Critical Error

Failed to Acquire the Virtual box COM object

With this in the Details


Document is empty.
Location: 'C:\Users\barry\.VirtualBox\VirtualBox.xml', line 1 (0), column 1.
F:\tinderbox\win-6.1\src\VBox\Main\src-server\VirtualBoxImpl.cpp[740] (long __cdecl VirtualBox::init(void)).


Result Code:
E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component:
VirtualBoxWrap
Interface:
IVirtualBox {d0a0163f-e254-4e5b-a1f2-011cf991c38d}
Callee:
IVirtualBoxClient {d2937a8e-cb8d-4382-90ba-b7da78a74573}


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Barry
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Message 44363 - Posted: 22 Feb 2021, 7:01:26 UTC

2021-02-18 13:39:00 (10380): WARNING: Communication with VM Hypervisor failed.
2021-02-18 13:39:00 (10380): ERROR: VBoxManage list hostinfo failed
Do you have Extension Pack installed. This is important.
Have you Hyper-V enabled in Windows. This must be disabled.
Is AMD-V or VT-X enabled in BIOS?
Otherwhise have no more ideas.
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Message 44364 - Posted: 22 Feb 2021, 8:00:41 UTC - in response to Message 44363.  
Last modified: 22 Feb 2021, 8:01:51 UTC

Solved the Problem

the XML files were named wrong

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=33196

Thank you for your Help back to crunching :)
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