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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. 

  • Kiki

    Thanks!!!

  • benedikt

    thanks – worked! 

  • http://www.facebook.com/aleksey.navros Aleksey Navros

    Incredible, thank you!

  • http://julian.melville.net.nz/ Julian

    Fantastic – this is still the fix under Virtualbox 4.1.2 on Win 7 x64. The minute I closed Dropbox it finished.

  • David Thomas

    Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. :-)

    I didn’t have to kill Skype; only Dropbox.

  • Felix

    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

    Thanks a million! I also had to kill Skype.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Blomstedt/100001768774151 Stephen Blomstedt

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

  • http://www.thenextweb.com/me Ahmad Fahad Al-Shagra

    You solved a very serious problem I had. Thank you, thank you very much.

  • guest

    Thanks. Solved the problem for me too.  Silly that!  Was trying everything under the sun before your useful info.

  • Talkeasy

    Thank-you. Solved the problem for me.

  • Bidhan

    Thanks elder!!!

    it works fantastic!

  • Paleale77

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

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    Superb and this is really helpful information you have shared here.

  • Andrés Sánchez

    Wow, this was really helpful. Totally unexpected. Thanks a lot for the insight.

  • http://twitter.com/brandonsaxe brandonsaxe

    Thanks! saved me today!

  • http://blog.brunomlopes.com/ Bruno Lopes

    Thank you!

    I’ve actually had this problem several times and would never think it would be dropbox causing the issue…

  • http://news.netapex.org NetApex

    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!

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