Friday, July 10, 2020

Getting error while starting VirtualBox- Driver is probably stuck stopping/starting. Try 'sc.exe query vboxdrv'



Driver is probably stuck stopping/starting. Try 'sc.exe query vboxdrv' to get more information about its state. Rebooting may actually help.


go to below location


C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\drivers\vboxdrv

VBoxDrv.inf








click on install and start the machine .

This work in my case





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