[vbox-dev] VB 4.3 and VBoxManage guestcontrol

[Jeff Macdonald]

Hi Andreas,

I just tried out VirtualBox 4.3.2 and I'm still seeing this issue.

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 4:32 AM, Andreas Löffler
<andreas.loeffler at oracle.com> wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> thanks for the report. I already reproduced and fixed those bugs
> locally, and the next upcoming maintenance release should work as
> expected again.
>
> Andreas
>
>
>
> On 25.10.2013 22:34, Jeff Macdonald wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I use VBoxManage to automate VM creation/configuration/etc. My script
>> used guestcontrol stat to see if a VM was finished booting:
>>
>> VBoxManage guestcontrol vmtest stat / --username=root --password=root
>>
>> normally this command gives me an error until the VM is fully booted.
>> However, now it just hangs forever. The VM then becomes non
>> responsive.
>>
>> I found a work around for VM readyness using guestproperty wait:
>> guestproperty wait vmtest /VirtualBox/GuestInfo/OS/NoLoggedInUsers
>>
>> However, I have other guestcontrol commands that I use - execute for
>> instance. These seem to work but when the VM is powered off, while the
>> VM looks like it powered off, the process still exists and has to be
>> killed manually. This is easily seen by doing the following:
>>
>> $ VBoxManage startvm testvm
>> $ VBoxManage guestcontrol testvm execute --wait-stdout --username=root
>> --password=root --image /bin/ls
>> bin
>> boot
>> dev
>> etc
>> home
>> lib
>> lib64
>> lost+found
>> media
>> mnt
>> opt
>> proc
>> root
>> sbin
>> selinux
>> srv
>> sys
>> tmp
>> usr
>>
>> $ VBoxManage guestcontrol testvm execute --wait-stdout --username=root
>> --password=root --image /sbin/poweroff
>>
>> # wait for VM to shutdown
>>
>> $ VBoxManage startvm testvm VBoxManage: error: The machine 'testvm' is
>> already locked by a session (or being locked or unlocked)
>> VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE
>> (0x80bb0007), component Machine, interface IMachine, callee
>> nsISupports
>> VBoxManage: error: Context: "LaunchVMProcess(a->session,
>> sessionType.raw(), env.raw(), progress.asOutParam())" at line 592 of
>> file VBoxManageMisc.cpp
>>
>> # notice process is still running
>>
>> Host OS is OS X 10.7.5
>> GuestOS is CentOS 6.4
>>
>> Can anyone else confirm what I'm seeing?
>>
>>
>
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>
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Jeff Macdonald
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