[VM Control] virtualbox E_FAIL (0x80004005) The VM session was closed before any attempt to power it on

[youyuas]

I only used two versions of virtualbox, 3.2.0 and 3.2.6. I can see this problem under both of the 2 versions.

My work steps are as follows,

1. Import a .vmdk format harddisk file (WinXP installed).
2. Clone it to another new harddisk file and uses it in in vm
3. create a sharewrite and shareread folder for vm.
4. start OS.
5. With OS working, create a snapshot.
6. Then, each time I use VM, restore the snapshot to the working state. (PS, not only restore files, but also its state. In another work, both call Vboxmanager snapshot <vos> restore <snapshot> and vboxmanager adoptstate <vos> <snapshot>)

Now, it can work fine. But sometime, after a OS reboot, VM snapshot can't be restore correctly. After restore the snapshot, you can see OS state can't be restored, only files are restored. If you press start button on GUI, you can see guest OS start from boot, but not from the snapshot state.

call vboxmanager adoptstate <vos> <snapshot> and call vboxmanager startvm <vos>, vbox reports error

virtualbox E_FAIL (0x80004005) The VM session was closed before any attempt to power it on

Start from GUI, it reports

E_FAIL (0x80004005) Component: Machine GUI: ISession {12f4dcdb-12b2-4ec1-b7cd-ddd9f6c5bf4d}

Only workaround is to delete the snapshot and create it again.

PS: I have looked through the forum up to now, all suggested workaround doesn't work for me.