VirtualBox

Opened 10 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

#12547 closed defect (obsolete)

@ VM Machinestartup - EM: Failed to open a session for the virtual machine ...

Reported by: DavidDeb Owned by:
Component: VM control Version: VirtualBox 4.3.6
Keywords: E_FAIL (0x80004005) Cc:
Guest type: Windows Host type: Windows

Description

Hi,

after the update to 4.3.6 I get the following MSG when starting a VM for the SECOND time (the first start up after boot-up works OK)

Failed to open a session for the virtual machine ...

The VM session was closed before any attempt to power it on.

Result Code: E_FAIL (0x80004005) Component: SessionMachine Interface: ISession {12f4dcdb-12b2-4ec1-b7cd-ddd9f6c5bf4d}

Workaround (temporary I hope) : reboot the host machine

Host is: Win7 x64, Guest: WinXP x86

Is this related to Ticket #12424 ??

Thx 4 your attn. and best regards,

David D.

Change History (4)

comment:1 by DavidDeb, 10 years ago

Multiple instances of VirtualBox.exe seem to have been started and only 'go away' after rebooting the host, some VMs in this condition do not start at all - just hang during init!

This seems to be more serious than my initial estimation.

comment:2 by Frank Mehnert, 10 years ago

How do you start the VM, I guess from the VM selector window? When the VM is terminated, do you terminate the VM selector window before you restart the VM or do you keep this window open? Please exactly describe as exactly as you can the steps how you start the VM(s).

comment:3 by DavidDeb, 10 years ago

Hi,

I always start the sessions from the selector window - usually with 'double-click' on the VM in the list window. When this issue first occurred, I shut down the selector window and restarted it, then tried to restart the session - this is when the described problem happens. Initially I rebooted the host to clear this, now I find 'Log-off / log-on' resolves the issue. All of the virtual machine processes are killed in the task manager / list and the VM can be started again seemingly normally.

Version 0, edited 10 years ago by DavidDeb (next)

comment:4 by aeichner, 8 years ago

Resolution: obsolete
Status: newclosed

Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.

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