

Below are some steps to try and repair your VirtualBox installation. From the user’s perspective, the symptoms of both the permission issue and kernel integrations issue are similar, and the solutions are related. In our testing, we have found that different users have experienced both of these types of issues with VirtualBox (and other software such as VMWare). Also, if VirtualBox was already installed and an update to MacOS is performed, this can break existing kernel integrations and permissions that were previously working. Some applications will no longer function with certain permissions and will no longer function without certain permissions. In Catalina and higher macOS, how applications manage their permissions as well as how kernel integrations are handled has been changed. Shared folders stop working (if you were using them).Some features such as copy/paste and drag-and-drop between the host OSX and guest Virtual Machine is not working, or causes freezing or crashes.


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