https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27219
--- Comment #3 from Qian Hong fracting@gmail.com --- I still can start Virtualbox, but the bug still present.
I'm testing on
$ wine --version wine-1.7.33-40-gca51e11
$ uname -a Linux fracting-ThinkPad-Edge-E431 3.16.0-28-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP Fri Dec 12 17:38:37 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 14.10 Release: 14.10 Codename: utopic
$ du -h VirtualBox-4.0.8-71778-Win.exe 80M VirtualBox-4.0.8-71778-Win.exe
$ sha1sum VirtualBox-4.0.8-71778-Win.exe b3a840b31407d93ed2e651f91fa33fe15f6f13c8 VirtualBox-4.0.8-71778-Win.exe
I don't have "err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {b1a7a4f2-47b9-4a1e-82b2-07ccd5323c3f} not registered" in log. Austin, is it possible that your installation is incomplete? Or maybe there is something else different between our configure, maybe you are using 64bit?