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kekc

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Registered: 2017-11-10

Posts: 15

[SOLVED] VirtualBox - can't start Windows VM under normal user

Running a Cinnamon DE, VirtualBox fails for Windows VM (starting from .iso) under normal user (works under root or any linux-based VMs):

Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Win10x64.

The VM session was closed before any attempt to power it on.

Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: SessionMachine
Interface: ISession {7844aa05-b02e-4cdd-a04f-ade4a762e6b7}

Seems a similar case to these, but I'm not running GNOME and it's not Wayland-related:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=217336
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=220321

Any ideas?

Last edited by kekc (2017-11-18 14:13:36)

kekc

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Registered: 2017-11-10

Posts: 15

Re: [SOLVED] VirtualBox - can't start Windows VM under normal user

My bad - ran out of space in the VirtualBox folder. Marked as solved.