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

[Christian Pötzsch]

There was a complete rewrite of the OpenGL host implementation from 3.0 
to 3.1. We have ported it from Carbon to Cocoa. Might be that it 
silently fails in the 3.0 version. I will have a look tomorrow.

Christian

On 2/1/10 10:00 PM, Lev Lvovsky wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> VBoxManage shows it as enabled - I'll disable it tonight and see if 3.1.x works (not local to the machine right now).
>
> The instance which I have running now (3.0.12) doesn't crash - was this implicitly ignored in 3.0.x versions?
>
> many thanks!
> -lev
>
> On Feb 1, 2010, at 12:15 PM, Christian Pötzsch wrote:
>
>> 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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