[vbox-dev] Windows build status

[Klaus Espenlaub]

Rudolfs,
On 24.10.2014 10:00, Rūdolfs Bundulis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I eventually managed to build the latest release from sources without 
> the hardening and using VBOX_QUICK since I don't need the frontends so 
> this removed some of the dependencies which was nice. The build 
> finished without any errors, however I'm unable to register the COM 
> interface, I'm runnging comregister.cmd and also tried to run regsvr32 
> from command line, the dialog box says that registration was 
> successful, however CoCreateInstance always fails, and when I dumped 
> the list of registred classes from the registry I could not find 
> anything VirtualBox or Oracle related. Does the debug build use some 
> other UUID or are there any log files or other hints how I could find 
> what is going wrong?
Did you run comregister.cmd as admin? Otherwise it's not able to change 
the relevant registry entries - and I faintly remember that it's best 
not to use comregister.cmd when a "proper" VirtualBox package is 
installed currently (forgot if it just causes trouble with uninstall or 
if there was some more serious trouble).

I'm not aware of generic COM logging (because that's what apparently 
fails)... you might try if manually starting VBoxSVC works around the 
error, because if it does it's definitely a registry problem and nothing 
else.

Klaus