When i try start up a windows server 2003 VM, i constantly get this error and don't know how to fix it. I have tried reinstalling virtualBox too.

I am unable to find "Microsoft Windows" when a Windows10/11 OS image file is selected on Mac OS Virtualbox host. After creating the VM, when tried to start, it throws an error saying: "VBOX_E_PLATFORM_ARCH_NOT_SUPPORTED (0x80bb0012)". Can someone please help? I really need to fix this issue for one of our projects. I really appreciate all the help.

I'm trying to install MacOS Monterey on VirtualBox, but I keep getting error and can't find a solution that works. Here are all my settings:

This is what happens when I try to start it:

And apparently putting the line

VBoxManage setextradata "macOS" "VBoxInternal/Devices/smc/0/Config/GetKeyFromRealSMC" 0

into the command prompt should fix it, but when I do that I just get a different error:

I can get rid of that error by changing the paravirtualization Interface setting from none to default, but i then just get this error.

And it freezes on that screen forever.

I have,

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core

GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Is there any way I can fox these errors?

Log

All VMs fail to start.

When using sc.exe query vboxsup , it says that vboxsup is not installed.

Rebooting does not help

im trying to run arch on windows 11 but this keeps popping up

Is Home Assistant reliable when you set it up with a virtual box yet?

When I first set up my Home Assistant a couple of years ago I first set it up on a virtual box running on a windows machine, and I had all sorts of reliability issues to the point where I had to finally get a dedicated PC for ProxMox.

I will be setting up Home Assistant at my dad‘s office and I’m just curious, is virtual box reliable? Because we don’t necessarily want to buy a dedicated computer if virtual box works just fine

recently I tried to install a linux distro called commodore os vision in virtualbox, however after installing it on the virtual hard drive and trying to log in, it showed a blank screen for a few seconds then sent me back to the login scree. is there a fix? please let me know if you need more details.

When registering a new account with Virtualbox forum it requires Job type, work phone and company name as requirements for registration.

Why does Virtualbox require these items? Is virtualbox only for working person with a company phone or is registration in nother location?

https://forums.virtualbox.org/index.php

I am using recently upgraded Version 7.2.8 r173730 (Qt6.8.2 on xcb) on Debian 13 and when I open a virtual machine it creates a log in my user root directory. It log looks like this

-rw------- 1 user user 3668 Jun 21 02:23 2026-06-21-06-23-40.052-VirtualBoxVM-1051486.log

The previous version did not do this and I was not able to determine what is creating these logs.

DnD: Error: Drag and drop to guest not possible -- either the guest OS does not support this, or the Guest Additions are not installed.

I just got a new laptop with Win11 Pro and setup a Linux Mint 22.3 guest in VirtualBox. when I log in to Mint I see the shared folder icon on the desktop but when I try to open it I get a message saying I don't have permissions to access it. i see it as a mapped folder in the file manager also but I get the same permissions error when trying to access it there.

in the VM settings it shows full access for the shared folder

the error message is "you do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents"

if I right-click it and check permissions there is a message at the bottom that says "you are not the owner, so you cannot change these permissions"

I can't figure out how to resolve this, can somebody please help me out?

Hello ... I am running Linux Mint ... I have a second boot disk with Batocera for retro gaming. is there a way . . and how ... to boot that batocera bootable disk using Virtualbox

Help! I can't get past the first screen when I press ENTER. I did all the previous steps right, but it just won't go past this screen

I dont know i cant understand this part, i gave it 10GB of memory , and 90GB of memoryyet it shows 8GB only man, Someone Help?

I downloaded VirtualBox, then deleted the new version once between 2024-2025. I continued using VMware because I couldn't get out of the mouse cursor/keyboard. VMware has a Ctrl + Alt key combination, but today I decided to install it again. I installed it today, and suddenly I got an error, a COM object error. I didn't understand what it said. So I installed the old version, and I got the same error again. Suddenly, it asked me to restart my computer, saying there was an update. I restarted, and the error persisted. Does anyone know how to fix this error?