Windows 10: Fix Failed to Acquire the VirtualBox COM Object

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Many Windows users are not able to access Oracle VirtualBox as when they try to launch a VM on your Windows 11/10 computer, they see the following error message. Failed to acquire the VirtualBox COM object, The application will terminate. In this article, we are going to see why you are seeing this error and […]

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Cannot start VirtualBox on Windows 10 - (Failed to acquire the VirtualBox COM object)

Greetings to the community, I recently tried to open my VirtualBox (windows 10 host OS) after approximately 3-4 months (when everything was perfect). Unfortunately, now the VirtualBox is unable to get started and I'm getting the following error message

What I have tried so far is:

1. Uninstall the virtualbox installation
   
2. Re-install
   
3. Reboot
   

(failed)

I have searched on the web for a solution but did not find anything really enlightening. Maybe this was caused due to a corrupted file on my system? Could you please provide an alternative workaround? I just do not want to lose my existing VMs.
Thanks in advance

PS: I don't know if this is related, but I have previously used Vagrant on my system, I mention that because it would not come to me as a surprise if the Vagrant corrupted something related to the VirtualBox.

 

Oracle Virtualbox install fails to launch

I run the installer and it appears to work but then I have two issues;

1. I get the following error when I try and launch virtualbox;

Failed to acquire the virtual box COM object

Completely failed to instantiate CLSID_VirtualBox: ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND 0x80070002.

[table][tr][td]Result Code: [/td][td]ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND 0x80070002 (0x80070002)[/td][/tr][tr][td]Component: [/td][td]VirtualBoxClientWrap[/td][/tr][tr][td]Interface: [/td][td]IVirtualBoxClient {d2937a8e-cb8d-4382-90ba-b7da78a74573}[/td][/tr][/table]

2. If I try and run vboxsvc.exe, even when double clicking on it Windows says it cannot find the file specified even though i'm double clicking on it or running it through a cmd window.

 

Sun VirtualBox

Been there and done that. Followed through enabling the 3D acceleration and as told i hit the "Install Guest Addition" to install the drivers in the guest operating system, after that i was told to reboot the VirtualBox and came to the blue windows XP shutdown screen... It was on that screen for more then 30mins and so i force a shutdown on the original Win7 OS to et rid of the VirtualBox OS shutdown screen. Rebooted and tested VirtualBox with the game and got the same error message as shown in my first post.

EDIT: Gone through all the steps till i came to rebooting the VirtualBox OS. After the system coming up normally, i checked if the 3D acceleration is enabled by running dxdiag. Here is what i get...





Need advise to fix 3D acceleration so i can go on. Thank you so much!