<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body><div><div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Hi Klaus,<br><br>Where do I look for VBoxSVC.log on Linux? And do I have to set any environment variables? Sadly I was used to Windows, but now I need to port my custom framebuffer stuff to Linux.</div></div><div dir="ltr"><hr><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">From: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:klaus.espenlaub@oracle.com">Klaus Espenlaub</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Sent: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">21/04/2016 18:15</span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">To: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:vbox-dev@virtualbox.org">vbox-dev@virtualbox.org</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Re: [vbox-dev] VirutalBox XPCOM interface as root</span><br><br></div>Hi Rūdolfs,<br><br>On 20.04.2016 10:54, Rūdolfs Bundulis wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>><br>> I encountered errors when trying to instantiate the VirtualBox interface<br>> through XPCOM on Ubuntu running as root - the CreateInstanceByContractID<br>> call always gives back 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR). On the other hand running<br>> the xpcom sample as non-root works fine. Sadly I currently can't launch<br>> my code as non root (but I'll try fixing that). Is that simply a known<br>> limitation that root cannot connect to the service or is there smth I am<br>> missing?<br><br>Not a known issue. VirtualBox works just fine for me as root (I'm not <br>using Ubuntu, though).<br><br>Anything in VBoxSVC.log which would give hints?<br><br>Klaus<br>><br>> Best Regards,<br>> Rudolfs Bundulis.<br>_______________________________________________<br>vbox-dev mailing list<br>vbox-dev@virtualbox.org<br>https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev<br></body></html>