> From: vbox-users [mailto:[email protected]] > > Using openindiana 151a7, and virtualbox 4.2.6... > Recently updated from virtualbox 4.1.x > poweroff all vm's, and exit VirtualBox > sudo pkgrm SUNWvbox > sudo pkgadd -d VirtualBox-4.2.6-blah.pkg -n -a autoresponse > SUNWvbox > (followed by launching VirtualBox, and updating Oracle Extensions) > > All my old VM's work fine. But if I try to create any new VM's, they won't > launch. They give this error message. > Failed to open a session for the virtual machine, exit code 0, > NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Well, uh ... Just in case anybody ever has the same problem again, I might as well write what I know here. I wanted to get a good clean VBox.log for this problem, so I could go submit a bug report. So I shutdown all my guests, closed VirtualBox, did a "ps" to verify there's nothing VirtualBox related running (except VBoxZoneAccess). Launched VirtualBox. Repeated steps to reproduce problem (create a new guest VM, try to launch it) ... and it worked. Problem is gone. So, what's the cause of the problem? I only have two guesses: 1- This is the first time I ever did a VirtualBox upgrade on solaris. I did not know it was a bad idea to have machines in "savestate" state during the upgrade. It quickly became obvious, as I tried to restore machine states, they were obviously in a bad state. So I shutdown and rebooted all guest VM's immediately after upgrade. But I probably didn't completely close out of VirtualBox. It's possible that VirtualBox got into a bad state because of this. 2- I recently reported another bug, a really simple one, VirtualBox refuses to create a new machine if the destination directory already exists. While I was figuring this out and preparing to file the bug report, I created a guest VM, I shut it down, I renamed the directory that it was in, while VirtualBox was still running. It's possible that Virtualbox pays attention to the directories where guest VM's reside, even when they're powered off. It's possible Virtualbox got into a bad state because of me fiddling around not knowing what I was doing. Good luck everyone. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
