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Why can't I start the Virtual Machine I just built using VitrualBox?


Everything used to work fine, but I haven't been using Virtual Box for several weeks. Now all of the sudden, I get the following exception when trying to start my Windows 10(32-Bit) VM. Note - Things were working fine several weeks ago. As far as I can tell, I haven't changed anything on my system that would cause this. The exception details are as follow:

VirtualBox - Error In supR3HardenedWinReSpawn (rc=-5640) Please try reinstalling VirtualBox. where supR3HardenedWinReSpawn what: 1 VERR_SUP_VP_THREAD_NOT_ALONE (-5640) - Process Verification Failure: The process has more than one thread

I have been researching this for some time, to avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Solution

  • In case anyone is in the same predicament, I will share what finally fixed my issue. I found a post during my hours and hours of searching that said you have to enable virtualization in BIOS settings. I checked my machine and virtualization was enabled, so I went on searching. At a loss for what to try next, I finally tried turning virtualization off, just to see. No change, but when I went to turn it back on, just as a flook I turned Turbo off, and what do you know - All of the suddent I can start my VM. So the solution, in case it saves someone time:

    1. Uninstall Virtual Box (Latest Version)
    2. Reboot your machine and enter BIOS
    3. Make sure anything with the term 'Virtualization' is turned on
    4. Make sure anything with the term 'Turbo' is turned off
    5. Reboot your machine
    6. Install Virtual Box

    Hopefully this saves some poor soul what I had to go through to get this thing working.