[vbox-dev] VB 4.3 and VBoxManage guestcontrol

[Thomas Belian]

>>> On 10/28/2013 at 09:32 AM, in message <526E2119.8090308 at oracle.com>,
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.

Hello Andreas,

is there a connection with my problem? If I don't use
sessionobject.close() (or let's say: IGuessSession.close()) I have a
working python script, but I have the process of the VM, althought my VM
is already stopped. And if I use IGuessSession.close(), my VM crashes.

Regards,
Thomas

> 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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