When I use vagrant up to start the virtual machine, I often encounter such errors:

there was an error while executing vboxmanage, a cli used by vagrant for controlling virtualbox. the command and stderr is shown below.there was an error while executing vboxmanage, a cli used by vagrant for controlling virtualbox. the command and stderr is shown below.

command: [“startvm”, “e3088608-a6e8-49d5-b04d-72fe944fac85”, “–type”, “headless”

After trying many answers on the Internet, I can’t gracefully solve my problem. Most solutions are to delete the virtual machine and reinitialize it (whether deleting the VirtualBox MS folder or deleting the. Vagrant file in the user directory is actually deleting the virtual machine) However, it’s not easy to delete a virtual machine. You can create a new virtual machine again. However, the trouble is not to install the virtual machine, but I installed many environments on the virtual machine. After deleting the original, I have to do it all over again. However, fortunately, I can find the root cause now. In a word, the reason for this error is your virtual machine There is a normal shutdown.

How to solve

Type this command in the command line window: sc.exe query vboxdrv. This command is used to view the running status of vboxdrv. To ensure that state is running , if the query finds that it is not running , you need to use SC start vboxbrv to start the service.

If the startup fails, you can try to reinstall vboxbrv, find the vboxdrv folder under the installation directory, such as D: \ VirtualBox \ drivers \ vboxdrv, right-click vboxdrv.inf, select install, and then restart the computer

So, if the query is running , restart the computer directly and start the virtual machine again. You will find that it can be started.

There are various ways to shut down abnormally. Let’s talk about how to shut down normally:

The command line window uses vagrant halt

VirtualBox right click the current virtual machine and select normal shutdown