VirtualBox

Ticket #4034 (closed defect: worksforme)

Opened 6 months ago

Last modified 4 months ago

VirtualBox stop_vm init script does not work

Reported by: Flancer Assigned to:
Priority: major Component: other
Version: VirtualBox 2.2.2 Keywords:
Cc: Guest type: other
Host type: other

Description (Last modified by frank)

My VMs do not shutdown properly everything I reboot or shutdown the host machine.

I have noticed that the stop_vm function in the init script of vboxdrv does not really work.

I have made the following modification to the stop_vm function to make it work. 

elif [ "$SHUTDOWN" = "savestate" ]; then
    begin_msg "Saving state of remaining VMs"
    for v in $VMS; do
        v=`echo ${v:1}`
        v=`echo ${v%\"}`
        sudo -H -u $i $VBOXMANAGE -nologo controlvm $v savestate
    done
    succ_msg

I am using VirtualBox 2.2.2. and Ubuntu 8.0.4.

Change History

2009-05-18 12:06:38 changed by frank

  • description changed.

This is already fixed in SVN. The reason for the problem was that the output format of VBoxManage list runningvms changed. Why do you need the sudo command? Stopping the VM should actually work as super user without doing sudo as we set VBOX_IPC_SOCKETID.

2009-05-29 23:38:47 changed by frank

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

2009-07-07 01:33:50 changed by Flancer

  • status changed from closed to reopened.
  • resolution deleted.

It seems with VirtualBox 3.0, I saw that on my machine it can't find the VMs unless I place in the sudo command to perform the savestate.

2009-07-31 10:38:19 changed by frank

  • status changed from reopened to closed.
  • resolution set to worksforme.

This script is meant to be called from a root account.

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