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Can't start VirtualBox manager. COM Object error


Our host is Windows Server 2008 r2.
When a user RDP's into the server and starts an instance of VirtualBox, then another user RDP's in to a different user account and tries to start VirtualBox, it throws this error:

Failed to create the VirtualBox COM object.
Callee RC: CO_E_SERVER_EXEC_FAILURE (0x80080005) Windows Server 2008

Is VB able to handle multiple instances?

Our current case: U1 started VB to start up some of our VM's.
U2 (me in this case) just wants to create a couple new VM's on there.

If VB is unable to do this, how should I go about creating the new VM's?


Solution

  • Well, it looks like we might have gotten to the bottom of it.
    We had a service running that was an artifact from something that had been tried a while back.
    VboxVMService was still installed and running.
    As soon as we killed that, BINGO!, we were able to get in.

    I hope this helps somebody :)