VirtualBox Fails After Windows 11 Upgrade (NtCreateFile failed)
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After upgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 11, VirtualBox fails to start your Virtual Machine. You receive this error:
NtCreateFile (\Device\VBoxDrvStub) failed: 0xc0000034
STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND (0 retries) (rc=-101)
Make sure the kernel module has been loaded successfully.
where: supR3HardenedWinReSpawn what: 3 VERR_OPEN_FAILED (-101) – File/Device open failed. Driver is probably stuck stopping/starting. Try ‘sc.exe query vboxsup’ to get more information about its state. Rebooting may actually help.
To resolve this issue:
- Locate the VBoxSup.inf file. Usually found here: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\drivers\vboxsup
- Right-Click the VBoxSup.inf file and select [Install]
- Open a command prompt as Administrator and run the following command:
sc start vboxsup - Start your VM
Hopefully, this helps. If you have another way of resolving the issue, let me know.
Thank you, life saver!
Awesome! I’m glad it helped, Florin!
This was the first article that appeared on my search and solved the problem.
I had just updated Virtual Box (it was one update in a batch) and when I rebooted the computer, it failed to load my boxes.
Apparently, Oracle failed to update their install procedures.
Had they done that, such simple problem wouldn’t have occurred.
Very cool! I’m glad it worked for you.