[vbox-dev] python: launchVMProcess(session, 'sdl', None) segfaults

[Nikolay Igotti]

Hi Francisco,

Gentoo surely could be nominate for Oscar for entertaining so many 
people :).
Can you run QT frontend from the same program? Any chance to inspect 
core generated by
VBoxSDL (as it was killed with SIGSEGV).


Nikolay

19.01.2011 17:20, Francisco J. Vázquez пишет:
> I have this simple python program:
>
> from vboxapi import VirtualBoxManager
> vbox_mgr = VirtualBoxManager(None, None)
> vbox = vbox_mgr.vbox
> mgr = vbox_mgr.mgr
> vms = vbox.getMachines()
> session = mgr.getSessionObject(vbox)
> vm = vms[0]
> progress = vm.launchVMProcess(session, 'sdl', None)
> progress.waitForCompletion(-1)
>
> However, after the last line nothing happens. If I get the error info
> from the progress object I get:
>
>>>> print progress.errorInfo.text
> The virtual machine 'Windows 98' has terminated unexpectedly during
> startup because of signal 11
> Calling VBoxSDL --startvm "Windows 98" from the command line works as
> expected. Also, launching a headless session from python with
>
>>>> progress = vm.launchVMProcess(session, 'headless', None)
> works ok.
>
> This is with the OSE version compiled in gentoo. I can't try the bin
> version because VBoxPython2_7.so refuses to load:
>
>>>> __import__("VBoxPython2_7")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in<module>
> ImportError: /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxPython2_7.so: undefined symbol:
> PyUnicodeUCS2_AsUTF16String
>
> I only have access to gentoo machines, so I can't try virtualbox-bin
> to discard a compilation bug :(. I tried recompiling python with UCS2
> and UCS4 unicode support, but failed.
>
> Can anyone confirm that launching a SDL session from python works ok?
>
> Thanks
> Fran
>
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