[vbox-dev] The command 'VBoxManage.exe list vms' cannot work in VirtualBox4.3.12

[Frank Mehnert]

Hi,

On Monday 28 July 2014 06:39:53 Fei Wang wrote:
> The command 'VBoxManage.exe list vms' cannot work in 4.3.12, but works well
> in 4.2.16. Why ?
>  
> C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe list vms
> VBoxManage.exe: error: Failed to create the VirtualBox object!
> VBoxManage.exe: error: Code E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057) - One or more
> arguments ar e invalid (extended info not available)
> VBoxManage.exe: error: Most likely, the VirtualBox COM server is not running
> or failed to start.

looks to me like the VBoxSVC service crashes for some reason. That command
works fine here on Windows with VBox 4.3.12 so I wonder if you have some
special setup.

Kind regards,

Frank
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