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VirtualBox Hangs During Installation – Close DropBox

Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in Programming | Posted on 22-01-2011

I spent several days off and on trying to get VirtualBox to install (version 4.0.2 to be exact).  After numerous things I started shutting down everything to see what was going on.  Turns out after I shut down DropBox the install proceeded.  Up until that point it would only get to about 85% of the way through installation and would disconnect from my local network. 

Hopefully this will help someone down the road.  Oh and if you have any other installation problems, please don’t ask for help here as I am sure I do not know the answer. 

Comments (25)

Ludwvin Martinez said on 27-10-2014

Thanks! It is disappointing that almost four years after the original post, the Virtualbox setup still gets stuck when Dropbox is running. I am on Windows 8.1 and ran into this issue today.

john said on 08-10-2013

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Iain M Norman said on 30-04-2013

Dropbox didn’t solve it for me, so I went though running services and killed some. Things kicked off for me when I killed the java vm.
Shoker said on 02-10-2012

Thank you very much! Bizarre problem.
oliver said on 02-08-2012

thank you! waited over 15 minutes… closed dropbox and installation done. 🙂
Clive Harlow said on 23-05-2012

Thank you very very much!!! I had wasted so much time on this before I saw this post.
Kiki said on 03-05-2012

Thanks!!!
benedikt said on 30-04-2012

thanks – worked! 
Aleksey Navros said on 16-04-2012

Incredible, thank you!

Julian said on 03-04-2012

Fantastic – this is still the fix under Virtualbox 4.1.2 on Win 7 x64. The minute I closed Dropbox it finished.
David Thomas said on 22-03-2012

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. 🙂

I didn’t have to kill Skype; only Dropbox.
Felix said on 21-03-2012

Thank you. I also had the same issue. Tried VirtualBox versions 4.1.10, 4.1.8 and 4.1.6 multiple times. Only after reading your blog and closing Dropbox did the installation finally succeed. Bad Dropbox bad.
Hunter said on 19-03-2012

Thanks a million! I also had to kill Skype.
Stephen Blomstedt said on 19-03-2012

Thanks for for figuring that out. I hate it when other software causes problems like that.

Ahmad Fahad Al-Shagra said on 15-03-2012

You solved a very serious problem I had. Thank you, thank you very much.
guest said on 10-03-2012

Thanks. Solved the problem for me too.  Silly that!  Was trying everything under the sun before your useful info.
Talkeasy said on 01-03-2012

Thank-you. Solved the problem for me.
Bidhan said on 29-01-2012

Thanks elder!!!

it works fantastic!
Paleale77 said on 09-01-2012

Thanks a lot! I already switched my virtual machines to another PC to be able to work again before i found your post.

Web Hosting Provider said on 06-01-2012

Superb and this is really helpful information you have shared here.
Andrés Sánchez said on 05-01-2012

Wow, this was really helpful. Totally unexpected. Thanks a lot for the insight.
brandonsaxe said on 26-10-2011

Thanks! saved me today!
Bruno Lopes said on 06-05-2011

Thank you!

I’ve actually had this problem several times and would never think it would be dropbox causing the issue…
NetApex said on 02-03-2011

Funny, I was had done the install three or four times getting locked up at the same point right after the internet connection was shut down. They really need to include a “oh yeah, stop dropbox a sec” line in there somewhere. Thanks for the post!
Anonymous said on 28-01-2011

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