VirtualBox

Opened 13 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

#9504 closed defect (obsolete)

VirtualBox crashes before starting

Reported by: Toby White Owned by:
Component: other Version: VirtualBox 4.1.2
Keywords: Cc:
Guest type: other Host type: Mac OS X

Description (last modified by Frank Mehnert)

On Mac OS X (10.6.8), starting VirtualBox by clicking on the icon results in apparently nothing happening. Looking in the console log, it's crashing, with the attached crash log.

Starting it from the command line gives the output:

tow$ VBoxManage list VBoxManage: error: Failed to initialize COM!

The same happens with every VBoxManage option I've tried.

Attachments (1)

VirtualBox_2011-08-26-111859_localhost.crash (25.3 KB ) - added by Toby White 13 years ago.

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Change History (4)

comment:1 by Toby White, 13 years ago

Sorry, just realised the command line error message was because I didn't sudo the command. But it still doesn't work:

tow$ VirtualBox 
Bus error

comment:2 by Toby White, 13 years ago

Problem solved.

I also had a version of VMWare Fusion installed at the same time. After uninstalling that, VirtualBox now works correctly.

It would be helpful if a better error message was given in this case rather than just crashing.

comment:3 by Frank Mehnert, 10 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
Resolution: obsolete
Status: newclosed
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