Error message IO Exception while running Selenium Webdriver

Question

I am running automation scripts using Selenium Webdriver in Java language. I am getting the following error-:

IO Exception from Virtual machine

My OS is Windows 10 and Selenium webdriver version is 3.0.1. What is the reason?

Comments

What point are you getting the error? Can you post your stacktrace and code at which you are getting the error?

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Stack trace is as follows -:
Started InternetExplorerDriver server (64-bit)
2.32.3.0
Listening on port 18590
org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector tryExecute
INFO: I/O exception (java.net.SocketException) caught when processing request: Software caused connection abort: recv failed
org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector tryExecute
INFO: Retrying request

My code is -:
System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", driverPath+"IEDriverServer.exe");
driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
driver.navigate().to("http://www.google.com");

Answer 1

Go to internet options of your browser and go to Security and click on "Reset all zones to default level. Now make sure that Enable Protected mode is ticked for all four zones. It should work now.

Comments

This does not help for IE 11 on windows 7 using selenium 3.0.1

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Okay. What you have posted is a warning message. The IE Driver includes an HTTP server. It uses the JSON wire protocol. The HTTP server takes time to start and be ready to HTTP requests. But the RemoteWebDriver can not exactly know when that server will be available. So, it will keep on polling the server and it warns you that the HTTP server is not ready yet. Even after waiting for some amount of time, if server does not respond, it will not initiate browser and it will throw exception. Since you are using VM, I suspect that you do not have sufficient memory or proper RAID mechanism to run VM. You might have to increase ram and uninstall other programs which runs in background. Also, see if your CPU usage is below 95% while you invoke tests. Work with your Admin team to get faster VM.

Hope that helps!