VirtualBox won't start

bbzz · Nov 5, 2011

The error I get is:

Code:

Failed to create the VirtualBox COM object.

Details show

Code:

Callee RC: NS_ERROR_FACTORY_NOT_REGISTERED (0x80040154)

This is from ports, all defaults.
I did search forums for something similar but I couldn't solve it.
Installation mentions about this exact problem, and suggests to delete some file from /tmp, which in my case doesn't exist.

wblock@ · Nov 5, 2011

Did you load the kernel module?
/boot/loader.conf

Code:

vboxdrv_load="YES"

Or just load it manually with
# kldload vboxdrv

bbzz · Nov 5, 2011

Ofcourse.

bbzz · Nov 6, 2011

Any suggestions on this? How to begin troubleshooting?

wblock@ · Nov 6, 2011

Is /tmp writable by the user? Has the user been added to the vboxusers group?

bbzz · Nov 6, 2011

# ls -ld /tmp

Code:

drwxrwxrwt  11 root  wheel  18 Nov  6 03:17 /tmp

% groups

Code:

bbzz wheel operator vboxusers

bbzz · Nov 12, 2011

I don't know what update did it, but it just works now. Is there a way to see a list of recently updated ports?

wblock@ · Nov 12, 2011

% ls -ltr /var/db/pkg
lists them in the order they were most recently written.

bbzz · Nov 17, 2011

Sorry, I forgot to get back to this one...
Well, I rolled couple of snapshots back that day, so I couldn't figure out which one was the culprit. There were like 50 different packages. I also recompiled Xorg and most of QT4 stuff, so, the mystery remains.
Anyways, I'm happy, it works.

alie · Mar 16, 2012

I got the same issue

Code:

[/usr/home/alie]$ pkg_info | grep "virtualbox"
virtualbox-ose-4.1.10 A general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware
virtualbox-ose-kmod-4.1.10 VirtualBox kernel module for FreeBSD

What is the exact solution to fix this issue?

binyo66 · Feb 16, 2013

I got the same problem. I solved this with deleting all .vbox-xxxx-ipc in /tmp (where xxxxx is the user id).