Once the driver is installed, launch Command Prompt as an administrator and execute the following command. sc start vboxdrv Finally, close CMD and launch VM to check if the issue is resolved.

Affected applications include, but are not limited to: CMD.EXE Explorer.EXE MMC-based applications Microsoft Office applications PowerShell Example startup errors include: ...

Modern Windows Operating Systems allow VirtualBox to use VT-x even if Hyper-V is enabled but this feature is still underbacked. Therefore, we will go ahead and disable Hyper-V on the host OS.