VirtualBox

Opened 10 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

#12930 closed defect (obsolete)

extraneous icon in dock

Reported by: Louis King Jr Owned by:
Component: other Version: VirtualBox 4.3.10
Keywords: Cc:
Guest type: all Host type: Mac OS X

Description

I believe since the start of the 4.3... versions of VirtualBox an extra icon shows up in the dock on OSX 10.9. Apparently caused by one of the VirtualBox services. I'm going to try and attach a screen shot.

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Change History (7)

by Louis King Jr, 10 years ago

comment:1 by Frank Mehnert, 10 years ago

Which version of VBox are you using? I think there was a fix in VBox 4.3.8 which sounds to be related to your problem.

comment:2 by zoeker, 10 years ago

I have been experiencing the same problem for a long time. Today I tried completely uninstalling VirtualBox using the uninstall script and then installing it afresh. Unfortunately there was no improvement, the problem persists. Whenever I start a virtual machine an additional dock icon pops up that can be seen in Activity Monitor in red as "Not Responding". Opening a second virtual machine however does not produce a second icon. Only when all VMs get closed does the icon/process go away. If I stop it with Force Quit, then VirtualBox starts behaving strangely: empty VM settings dialog with only OK and Cancel buttons, inability to do anything with the VM because it does not seem to find it, etc...

comment:3 by Frank Mehnert, 10 years ago

Sigh, I still don't know which VBox versions are you using...

comment:4 by zoeker, 10 years ago

The problem persisted through 4.3.10 and now, 4.3.12. Strangely enough, that happens on my MacBook Pro only. On the iMac the extraneous icon isn't there and I keep the versions on both machines the same.

comment:5 by zoeker, 10 years ago

Another thing I've noticed recently, since I did a complete reinstall of VirtualBox, is that without the extension pack the icon doesn't show up. Once the extension pack is installed however it does show up.

comment:6 by aeichner, 8 years ago

Resolution: obsolete
Status: newclosed

Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.

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