VirtualBox error NS_ERROR_FAILURE Component MachineWrap when launching a VM on GNOME, works on Plasma

[ventoux84]

Hello,
I installed Solus a month ago, and I haven't been able to get VirtualBox to work.
According to your documentation, in my case, I need to install the virtualbox-current package, which I have done.
My user has also been added to the vboxusers group.

At this point, every time I try to launch a VM, it crashes immediately with this detail:

VM Name: cc

The virtual machine ‘cc’ has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1).
Result Code:
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component:
MachineWrap
Interface:
IMachine {e36a5081-a82a-40bd-9e4e-42a44d6ce50f}

What else needs to be done to make it work?

[malfisya]

Is this you https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12351-virtualbox-error-starting-guest-ns-error-failure-0x80004005 ? Just confirming.

Just a note that nobody can reproduce this error yet. That is why we cannot deal with the problem. If you can provide more complete core dump that might help. Thank you.

[ventoux84]

Yes it's me.
And, of course, what command should I use to get more information about the problem ?

eopkg li | grep virtualbox 
virtualbox-common                             - Common components for VirtualBox host packages
virtualbox-current                            - VirtualBox host modules for the linux-current kernel

uname -r
6.18.8-326.current

[ventoux84]

I installed Solus on another machine.
After the first update and installing virtualbox-current, VirtualBox wouldn't launch because the modules were missing.
After a second, rather heavy update, VirtualBox is now working properly.

The problem definitely stems from my installation on the first machine.

lsmod | grep vbox
vboxnetadp             32768  0
vboxnetflt             45056  0
vboxdrv               573440  2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt

 eopkg li | grep virtualbox
virtualbox-common                             - Common components for VirtualBox host packages
virtualbox-current                            - VirtualBox host modules for the linux-current kernel

Where should I look?

[ventoux84]

I continued my research by installing it again on another disk on this machine, in partitions created for this purpose.
Unfortunately, I got the same bad result: Virtualbox crashes as soon as it launches.
There is something wrong with this machine.

# System Details Report
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## Report details
- **Date generated:**                              2026-02-13 11:44:37

## Hardware Information:
- **Hardware Model:**                              HP HP EliteDesk 800 G3 DM 35W
- **Memory:**                                      16.0 GiB
- **Processor:**                                   Intel® Core™ i5-6500T × 4
- **Graphics:**                                    Intel® HD Graphics 530 (SKL GT2)
- **Disk Capacity:**                               1.5 TB

## Software Information:
- **Firmware Version:**                            P21 Ver. 02.48
- **OS Name:**                                     Solus 4.8 Opportunity
- **OS Build:**                                    (null)
- **OS Type:**                                     64-bit
- **GNOME Version:**                               49
- **Windowing System:**                            Wayland
- **Kernel Version:**                              Linux 6.18.8-326.current