Got it!
I had to "Discard" the saved state, and then I could turn off the USB
support (actually just lowered it to USB 1.0), and now my VMs work!
Yea! You did great! Thanks!
On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 10:16 AM, Kent West <we...@acu.edu> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 10:08 AM, Kent West <we...@acu.edu> wrote:
>
>> I just did an "aptitude udpate" and "aptitude dist-upgrade", and got a
>> new version of VirtualBox.
>>
>> When I try to start a virtual machine, I get a new error:
>>
>>
>> Implementation of the USB 2.0 controller not found!
>>
>> Because the USB 2.0 controller state is part of the saved VM state, the
>> VM cannot be started. To fix this problem, either install the
>> 'Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack' or disable USB 2.0 support in the
>> VM settings.
>>
>> Note! This error could also mean that an incompatible version of the
>> 'Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack' is installed (VERR_NOT_FOUND).
>>
>> Result Code:
>>
>> NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
>>
>> Component:
>>
>> ConsoleWrap
>>
>> Interface:
>>
>> IConsole {872da645-4a9b-1727-bee2-5585105b9eed}
>>
>>
>>
> While VirtualBox was broken this week, I had tried various things (
> snapshot.debian.org, virtualbox.org, etc), but once I learned that the
> fix had been uploaded to stable, I made sure my sources.list was "clean" of
> anything non-Debian, but didn't think to look in my sources.list.d
> directory for additional "add-ons". I found that I did have a virtualbox
> file in that directory, which I have since removed.
>
> But if I'm understanding this error, for some months (years?), I've been
> pulling VirtualBox from virtualbox.org instead of from Debian, and whilst
> doing that, had configured my VMs with USB support. And my fix should just
> be to disable the USB support in my VMs, but those options are grayed
> (because my VMs are in a saved state, maybe?). Once I get this figured out,
> I suspect VirtualBox will work. I'll let you know.
>
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>
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