From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 23 19:23:11 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: emulation@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AD7B1065693 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:23:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Received: from shell.rawbw.com (shell.rawbw.com [198.144.192.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 010F68FC18 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:23:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eagle.syrec.org (c-24-6-221-126.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [24.6.221.126]) (authenticated bits=0) by shell.rawbw.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id n9NIw68R012915 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:58:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AE1FCBD.3040307@rawbw.com> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:58:05 -0700 From: Yuri User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090824) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: emulation@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Can't start VirtualBox: COM server problem? X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: yuri@rawbw.com List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:23:11 -0000 When I run: cat /dev/ad1s1 | VBoxManage stdin OutPutFile.vdi 21474836480 on 80-RC2 I get this output: ERROR: failed to create the VirtualBox object! ERROR: code NS_ERROR_ABORT (0x80004004) - Operation aborted (extended info not available) Most likely, the VirtualBox COM server is not running or failed to start. No processes with name VirtualBox are running. What could be the problem? Yuri