Virtualbox – Failed to create the VirtualBox COM object

Asked By Allexa David 0 points N/A Posted on - 11/23/2011

I have Fedora 8 installed to my Computer, and I installed Virtual box and I got this error which about COM object, and said that “The application will now terminate”. Is it error to my installer? Or something error about my system?. How can I install this one successfully?

Error:

VirtualBox – Critical Error

Failed to create the VirtualBox COM object.

The application will now terminate.

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Answered By mike saint 0 points N/A #113834

Virtualbox – Failed to create the VirtualBox COM object

Hi Allexa,

This could be that you have a problem with your installer. I suggest to run a Repair disk permissions using Disk utility before installing Virtualbox. If this doesn't work, try to use for the DVD of your fedora installer instead to see if that will work better. You could also try to use the latest version of VirtualBox is still didn't use it to see it will work on your system as it already fixed some bugs from Linux systems. Hope this could help you.

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Mike

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Answered By Riley weaver 10 points N/A #113836

Virtualbox – Failed to create the VirtualBox COM object

Hello there,

First of all check these things:

1. The VirtualBox you installed is the latest one!

2. Did you update your system after installing VirtualBox!

3. Did you update your VirtualBox recently!

If the installed virtualbox is not the latest one than install that. Try updating the fedora. At least try updating the VvirtualBox. If in between this the error is not solved than it is a user account problem, just run these two commands in the terminal. This will work for sure.

chown -R username. Username /home/ username

chown -R username. Username /tmp/. Vbox- username -IPC

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Answered By Lawrence M Crawford 0 points N/A #113837

Virtualbox – Failed to create the VirtualBox COM object

To fix this issue run the command: sudo dpkg -P virtualbox-3.1. Alongside these solutions you can apply another techniques to resolve this problem. Visit this Techyv post and get more techniques.

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