[OpenIndiana-discuss] Newly installed VirtualBox gives COM object error when launched

[Will Brokenbourgh]

Greetings!

After a relatively clean install of OpenIndiana (x86) (installed 
yesterday, updated today), I attempted to install the vanilla VirtualBox 
from virtualbox.org, and this failed due to unmet dependencies. I was 
then told in the OpenIndiana IRC to download a patched version 
(VirtualBox-5.1.6-SunOS-amd64-r110634.pkg) which installed perfectly. I 
then installed qt4 and tried to run VirtualBox. The following error 
dialogappeared:

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Failed to create the VirtualBoxClient COM object.
The application will now terminate.

Callee RC: NS_ERROR_FACTORY_NOT_REGISTERED (0x80040154)
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I then tried running VirtualBox as super-user and received the same error.

I was reminded to reboot OpenIndiana to make sure the vbox modules were 
loaded.  Even after reboot, I still receive the error, both as standard 
and super users.  The modules appear to be loaded:

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$ modinfo -c
[...]
227 1 vboxdrv                          LOADED/INSTALLED
228          1 vboxnet                          LOADED/INSTALLED
[...]
231          1 vboxflt                          LOADED/INSTALLED
232          1 vboxusbmon                       LOADED/INSTALLED
233          1 vboxusb                          LOADED/INSTALLED
[...]
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I was wondering if anyone had constructive thoughts about this problem?  
If you've received this error and fixed it, I would really appreciate 
your advice.

Thank you!


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Will Brokenbourgh
Pacific Northwest, USA
GMT-8

Sent from my OpenIndiana desktop