VBox failing on Dell hardware ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_ACCESSDENIED (0x80070005)

[madcpu]

Hi

I'm using VBox on Dell hardware (R715) where virtualisation is enabled with 160GB memory. The VMs are all failing upon starting up. see message below. The same config works on Sun x86 hardware.

VirtualBox web service 4.1.18 r78361 solaris.amd64 (Jun  5 2012 16:12:26) release log
00:00:00.177 main     Log opened 2012-07-21T06:52:33.818525000Z
00:00:00.178 main     OS Product: SunOS
00:00:00.178 main     OS Release: 5.10
00:00:00.178 main     OS Version: Generic_147441-01
00:00:00.178 main     OS Service Pack: Generic_147441-01
00:00:00.178 main     Executable: /opt/VirtualBox/amd64/vboxwebsrv
00:00:00.178 main     Process ID: 549
00:00:00.178 main     Package type: SOLARIS_64BITS_GENERIC

00:05:28.983 TIMER    ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_ACCESSDENIED (0x80070005) aIID={1968b7d3-e3bf-4ceb-99e0-cb7c913317bb} aComponent={Console} aText={The virtual machine is not powered up}, preserve=false
00:05:29.269 TIMER    ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_ACCESSDENIED (0x80070005) aIID={1968b7d3-e3bf-4ceb-99e0-cb7c913317bb} aComponent={Console} aText={The virtual machine is not powered up}, preserve=false
00:05:30.589 SQW04    ERROR [COM]: aRC=NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED (0x8000ffff) aIID={12f4dcdb-12b2-4ec1-b7cd-ddd9f6c5bf4d} aComponent={Session} aText={The session is not locked (session state: Unlocked)}, preserve=false
00:05:30.831 TIMER    ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_ACCESSDENIED (0x80070005) aIID={1968b7d3-e3bf-4ceb-99e0-cb7c913317bb} aComponent={Console} aText={The virtual machine is not powered up}, preserve=false

[Ramshankar Venkataraman]

How are you starting the VMs? This is the webservice log. Please provide the VBox.log for the VM that fails to start. The normal way to start VMs is to run "VirtualBox" (the GUI) or use "VBoxManage" or "VBoxHeadless".