Failure to start Virtual Box 1.6.0 OS X x86

[Mark Brown]

I see the following error dialog after starting VirtualBox in Applications:

Failed to initialize COM or find the VirtualBox COM server.
Most likely, the VirtualBox server is not running or failed
to start. The application will now terminate. Callee RC: 0x80004005

I am running the kernel: Darwin marksmac 9.3.0 Darwin Kernel

Version 9.3.0: Fri May 23 00:49:16 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.18~1/RELEASE_I386 i386

Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 4096 bytes)
Pages free: 670618.
Pages active: 186384.
Pages inactive: 8608.
Pages wired down: 180097.
"Translation faults": 5854431.
Pages copy-on-write: 109653.
Pages zero filled: 2666166.
Pages reactivated: 0.
Pageins: 47839.
Pageouts: 0.
Object cache: 12744 hits of 173177 lookups (7% hit rate)

Jun 1 11:42:38 marksmac SystemStarter[204]: "/Library/StartupItems" failed sanity check: path was created after boot up
Jun 1 11:42:43 marksmac kernel[0]: supdrvGipInit: pGip=0x5ad70000 HCPhys=5f772000 u64NanoTS=3748956035598 uUpdateHz=100
Jun 1 11:42:43 marksmac kernel[0]: VBoxDrv: Successfully started. (major=18)

I am running as an Admin user on a MacBook

I do not see any other logs associated with VirtualBox on my machine. Does anyone have any ideas? Let me know if you need anymore information.

I reinstalled the application several times.

[Mark Brown]

Error dialog

[nutznboltz]

Apple's user license agreements forbid the use of Mac OS X (but not Darwin as that is Open Source) on non-Apple hardware.

[Michael Thayer]

markb: have you tried reinstalling VirtualBox (just the application, without deleting your virtual machines) as per ​http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/User_FAQ ?

[Mark Brown]

Nutznbolts: I am running Mac OS X Leopard on a MacBook.

Michael: I've re-installed the package many times.