You can try posting on Oracle's VirtualBox forum. I have found no helpful advice geared towards Mac OS X users to troubleshoot or resolve this issue.

Works great, until I log out and try to run VirtualBox on my primary admin account, which results in the same 'failed to initialize COM' error. The closest workaround I could find that enabled VirtualBox to open was to create a brand new admin level user, log in to that user account, then install VirtualBox and run under that account.

It is trying to locate a non-existent directory. There is no such VirtualBox folder in my user Library folder. Please check the permissions of this directory and of its parent directory. Aug 2017, 08:39 Hi Im trying to increase the VRAM but even if I set to 256MB on cmd, it is only 8mb on the About This Mac. My message:įailed to initialize COM because the VirtualBox global configuration directory /Users/username/Library/VirtualBox is not accessible. Mac OS X Mountain Lion (iATKOS ML2) Video Ram 3 posts of 1 Mac OS X Mountain Lion (iATKOS ML2) Video Ram by nusretsirin » 25. I have wasted over six hours alone trying to address the issue, and it's still unresolved. I am having a similar 'Failed to initialize COM' problem on Mac OS X 10.7.5, VirtualBox 4.2.2. but I don't see any kind of verification against OS X Server.īeen looking for a day now and haven't got a clue anymore where to look.Īre there people out there having the same kind of problems? so the version I'm using 4.1.18 should work. There have been issues with the support of Virtualbox but the testlevel was set to 4.1.15. SInce a number of things have fundamentally changed (X11 removed) I wonder what I need to do to get my Virtualbox working again and what is the **** difference that the installation of the server component causes. On my MacBook Pro I did the upgrade to ML too, but without the upgrade of the Lion Server to OS X Server. Most likely, the VirtualBox server is not running or failed to start. Got a problem since migrated to Mac OS X Mountain Lion with in addition OS X Server application installed to replace Mac OS X Lion server on a Mac Mini.Īll was working fine until the day after the installation I got the following message when I start VirtualBox:įailed to initialize COM or to find the VirtualBox COM server.

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