[vbox-dev] VB 4.3 and VBoxManage guestcontrol

[Andreas Löffler]

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?
>
>

-- 
Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen

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