I haven't used my Windows VM in about a week or so, the only thing I can think of that I've done within that week that may have caused this is cleared out my ~/.cache.
Anyway, now when I try and launch VirtualBox I get the following error:
VirtualBox - Critical Error
Failed to create the VirtualBox COM object.
The application will now terminate.
Document is empty.
Location: '/home/kalenpw/.config/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml', line 1 (0), column 1.
/build/virtualbox-VDAABr/virtualbox-4.3.36-dfsg/src/VBox/Main/src-server/VirtualBoxImpl.cpp[536] (nsresult VirtualBox::init()).
sure enough, ~/.config/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml is in fact empty, the only issue is I can't figure out what I need that file to be in order for virtual box to work. I've googled the error and everything says I need to change permissions of VirtualBox.xml, but I've already verified my user has permissions. VirtualBox will run if I do sudo virtualbox so clearly I've messed something up with that file I am just not sure what. Thanks.
VirtualBox.xml-prev? – Christopher Nov 18 '16 at 21:18VirtualBox.xml-prevand copying the contents of that intoVirtualBox.xmlresolved the issue. If you post this as answer I'll accept it – kalenpw Nov 18 '16 at 21:23