need somehelp with VirtualBox please

Diss · 28 Feb 2009 at 11:47

Hi

I am running Ubuntu 8.1 2.6.27.11 with the latest version of VirtualBox from the repository.

VirtuaBox itself starts but when i try and run my new vm (winXP) i get the following error message......

Virtual machine 'WinXP' has terminated unexpectedly during startup.
Result Code:
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component:
Machine Interface: IMachine {ea6fb7ea-1993-4642-b113-f29eb39e0df0}

I have googled this but not found anything i understood or was relevent. Any suggestions as to what i could do to fix this?

many thanks

diss

Peve · 28 Feb 2009 at 16:50

Quick Google gave me this might be worth a try:

http://throwingmywindows.blogspot.com/2008/12/virtualbox-21-in-ubuntu.html

FirebarUK · 28 Feb 2009 at 23:58

Even with that error the machine should still run. What happens exactly? The VM doesn't start at all?

Diss · 1 Mar 2009 at 07:37

Peve said:
Quick Google gave me this might be worth a try:

http://throwingmywindows.blogspot.com/2008/12/virtualbox-21-in-ubuntu.html

Hi

had a quick look at this - its talking about "failed to access USB sub system), whereas my error (sorry i didin't put this in the original post) was "failed to open a session for the virtual machine" so i haven't tried changing the file as suggested

or do you recommend i do this anyway?

thanks

Diss

Diss · 1 Mar 2009 at 07:39

FirebarUK said:
Even with that error the machine should still run. What happens exactly? The VM doesn't start at all?

hi

whats happened so far is:

i start virtualbox from a terminal (the item in the menu doesn't work)
virtual box starts and i set up a winxp VM
i try and run the VM but then get the error mentioned above

thanks

Diss

FirebarUK · 1 Mar 2009 at 09:05

Have you made sure that you are part of the vboxusers group? Does your VM use VT-x or AMD-VT (hardware virtualisation)?

Diss · 1 Mar 2009 at 13:40

FirebarUK said:
Have you made sure that you are part of the vboxusers group? Does your VM use VT-x or AMD-VT (hardware virtualisation)?

hi

if i look at my user account it says enabled to use virtualbox

and

for the other question there is only one tick box for both (which was ticked)

is VirtualBox dependent on a particular kernal, or are there maybe otyher thinsg i need to install to get it too work?

thanks

diss

FirebarUK · 1 Mar 2009 at 17:31

for the other question there is only one tick box for both (which was ticked)

Make sure hardware virtualisation is enabled in the BIOS of your host system.

jolie77 · 1 Mar 2009 at 19:06

That got it working for me cheers !!

FirebarUK · 1 Mar 2009 at 20:32

No worries

LabR@t · 2 Mar 2009 at 12:42

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Diss · 2 Mar 2009 at 16:56

FirebarUK said:
Make sure hardware virtualisation is enabled in the BIOS of your host system.

damn - thought this might sort it as its a newish build - but no, it was already enabled

there was something called MAX CPUID value limit that was disabled - is this anything to do with virtualisation?

thanks

diss

FirebarUK · 4 Mar 2009 at 16:20

there was something called MAX CPUID value limit that was disabled - is this anything to do with virtualisation?

Nope, not to do with virtualisation.

Afraid I'd be a little stumped with your problem. Have you tried the non-free Virtualbox to see if that exhibits the same problem (or just a different version of virtualbox). Perhaps your issue is version specific.