If you try to install VirtualKD 2.8 on VirtualBox 4.2.x, you get an error similar to this:<\/p>\n
\nUnable to cast COM object of type ‘VirtualBox.VirtualBoxClass’ to interface type ‘VirtualBox.IVirtualBox’. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID ‘{…}’ failed due to the following error: No such interface supported (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE)).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It turns out it’s a pretty easy thing to fix. The Interop.VirtualBox.dll distributed with VirtualKD is built for the 4.1 VirtualBox interface, so you just have to rebuild it for your version of VirtualBox. Create a C# project, and paste the following code into the Program.cs file to build a new Interop.VirtualBox.dll for 4.2.x. <\/p>\n
\r\nusing System;\r\nusing System.Reflection;\r\nusing System.Reflection.Emit;\r\nusing System.Runtime.InteropServices;\r\n\r\nnamespace ConvertTypeLibToAssembly\r\n{\r\n public class App\r\n {\r\n private enum RegKind\r\n {\r\n RegKind_Default = 0,\r\n RegKind_Register = 1,\r\n RegKind_None = 2\r\n }\r\n \r\n [ DllImport( \"oleaut32.dll\", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode, PreserveSig = false )]\r\n private static extern void LoadTypeLibEx( String strTypeLibName, RegKind regKind, \r\n [ MarshalAs( UnmanagedType.Interface )] out Object typeLib );\r\n \r\n public static void Main()\r\n {\r\n Object typeLib;\r\n LoadTypeLibEx( @\"C:\\Program Files\\Oracle\\VirtualBox\\VBoxC.dll\", RegKind.RegKind_None, out typeLib ); \r\n \r\n if( typeLib == null )\r\n {\r\n Console.WriteLine( \"LoadTypeLibEx failed.\" );\r\n return;\r\n }\r\n \r\n TypeLibConverter converter = new TypeLibConverter();\r\n ConversionEventHandler eventHandler = new ConversionEventHandler();\r\n \/\/AssemblyBuilder asm = converter.ConvertTypeLibToAssembly( typeLib, \"Interop.Virtualbox.dll\", 0, eventHandler, null, null, null, null );\r\n AssemblyBuilder asm = converter.ConvertTypeLibToAssembly(typeLib, \"Interop.VirtualBox.dll\", TypeLibImporterFlags.SafeArrayAsSystemArray, eventHandler, null, null, \"VirtualBox\", null); \/\/using assembly name \"VirtualBox\" and SafeArrayAsSystemArray to be compatible to VisualStudio-Generated Interop-Assembly\r\n\r\n asm.Save(\"Interop.Virtualbox.dll\");\r\n }\r\n }\r\n\r\n public class ConversionEventHandler : ITypeLibImporterNotifySink\r\n {\r\n public void ReportEvent( ImporterEventKind eventKind, int eventCode, string eventMsg )\r\n {\r\n \/\/ handle warning event here...\r\n }\r\n \r\n public Assembly ResolveRef( object typeLib )\r\n {\r\n \/\/ resolve reference here and return a correct assembly...\r\n return null; \r\n } \r\n }\r\n}\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\nSome of this code was grabbed from MSDN<\/a>, and a single line was grabbed from VirtualBoxService<\/a>. As the latter is GPL, this code may be GPL. I don’t claim any rights to it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you try to install VirtualKD 2.8 on VirtualBox 4.2.x, you get an error similar to this: Unable to cast COM object of type ‘VirtualBox.VirtualBoxClass’ to interface type ‘VirtualBox.IVirtualBox’. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID ‘{…}’ failed due to the following error: No such interface […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,47,52,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}