[vbox-dev] VBoxHeadless changes b/w 3.0.x and 3.1.2?

Christian Pötzsch Christian.Poetzsch at Sun.COM
Mon Feb 1 20:15:18 GMT 2010


Hi lev,

the backtrace shows that there the 3D acceleration is tried to be 
initialized, which badly fails. This is ofc a bug and we will have a 
look (there is no support for 3D on headless). Could you check if you 
enabled 3D on that particular VM and if so disable it.

Christian

On 2/1/10 6:37 PM, Lev Lvovsky wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I decided to upgrade to the latest release (3.1.2) for OS X hosts from 3.0.10.  I typically run VBoxHeadless from launchd as a regular user.  Subsequent to the upgrade, VBoxHeadless crashes with a crashlog which I'm attaching.
>
> The VirtualBox GUI starts up just fine, and allows the instance to run with no errors.
>
> Prior to VBoxHeadless actually starting up, I get a dialog prompting me (non-root user) to enter my password "to allow VBoxHeadless to make changes", similar to the following post:
>
> http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=21757#p95202
>
> The problem is that in my case even after providing the password, I get the crash.
>
> I'm currently stuck using 3.0.12 as the newer versions do not allow me to run VBoxHeadless.
>
> Any info/suggestions appreciated
>
> Thank you,
> -lev
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