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I use the portable version between two workstations. Both of which have Oracle's virtual box installed locally.

When I run the portable version on either computer it breaks the local installed versions. I think there are two things happening. One the VboxSVC takes over and doesn't reset the local version of VboxSVC registered. Second it seems as though the portable version is reading the local .virtualbox settings file in the %appdata% user profile directory. Then over writing it with the portable .virtualbox settings file after the portable version exits. Over at Portableapps.com they usually back up the locally installed settings files and data, then write it back after the portable version exits. If you don't want to do that then the portable version should ignore the local settings file. These two problems are re-producible.


Thanks for the great work and constant updates.

Has anyone looked into what may be causing the local (desktop Version) to crash after the Portable-Virtualbox is run?

Thanks

Thanks for the link. That is the same issue I'm having.

Here is a script that will re-register the local installed Virtualbox Service on XP machines. I'm not sure if it will work on a Win 7 box.

Run it after you shutdown your Portable-Virtualbox, and that should reset the local installed version.

Copy and save as a .bat file. (Re-Register-Virtualbox.bat)

@echo off
CD C:\
CD C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\
VBoxSVC.exe /ReRegServer
regsvr32.exe VBoxC.dll
EXIT