{"id":4857,"date":"2023-03-01T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/?p=4857"},"modified":"2023-03-01T17:35:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T23:35:02","slug":"virtualbox-failed-to-acquire-the-virtualbox-com-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/virtualbox-failed-to-acquire-the-virtualbox-com-object\/","title":{"rendered":"VirtualBox &#8211; Failed to acquire the VirtualBox COM object."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"296\" height=\"164\" src=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4858\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">VirtualBox failed to acquire the VirtualBox COM object.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the Details it was complaining about VirtualBox.xml<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking in Windows Explorer in the .VirtualBox folder<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>C:\\Users\\Username\\.VirtualBox<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>it shows that the VirtualBox.xml file being empty.  Delete the file.  Reinstall VirtualBox.  Now go to your VM&#8217;s in <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>C:\\Users\\Username\\VirtualBox VMs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Open up the VM folder and double click on the &#8220;Virtual Machine Definition&#8221; file to &#8220;reimport&#8221; them into VirtualBox.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the Details it was complaining about VirtualBox.xml Looking in Windows Explorer in the .VirtualBox folder C:\\Users\\Username\\.VirtualBox it shows that the VirtualBox.xml file being empty. Delete the file. Reinstall VirtualBox. Now go to your VM&#8217;s in C:\\Users\\Username\\VirtualBox VMs Open up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/virtualbox-failed-to-acquire-the-virtualbox-com-object\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[655,40,273],"class_list":["post-4857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","tag-error","tag-virtualbox","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4860,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857\/revisions\/4860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}