id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,guest,host
14717,guestcontrol run / start don't setup user environment in windows guests,rahoe,,"guestcontrol run / guestcontrol start don't setup the right user environment in the Windows guest when starting an application.

Starting an application with VirtualBox 4 ""guestcontrol execute"" leads to a windows environment like that:
{{{
APPDATA=C:\Users\rahoe\AppData\Roaming
LOCALAPPDATA=C:\Users\rahoe\AppData\Local
TEMP=C:\Users\rahoe\AppData\Local\Temp
TMP=C:\Users\rahoe\AppData\Local\Temp
USERPROFILE=C:\Users\rahoe
...
}}}

Starting in VB 5 per ""guestcontrol run"":
{{{
APPDATA=C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Roaming
LOCALAPPDATA=C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local
TEMP=C:\Windows\TEMP
TMP=C:\Windows\TEMP
USERPROFILE=C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile
}}}

So many applications can't work properly because they have no write permissions to profile data or temp directory.

Hints for reproducing the problem:
* Create a windows command script ""c:\testit.cmd"":
{{{
start c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe
}}}

* Run it using the following command in VirtualBox 5.0.6:
{{{
VBoxManage guestcontrol {vm-name} start --username rahoe --passwordfile password.dat -- 'c:\testit.cmd'
}}}
* or
{{{
VBoxManage guestcontrol {vm-name} start --username rahoe --passwordfile password.dat --exe 'c:\testit.cmd'
}}}
* using ""run"" instead of ""start"" don't make any difference

* Execute ""set|sort"" in the opened windows command shell window.

* Compare with VirtualBox 4.3.30:
{{{
VBoxManage guestcontrol {vm-name} execute --username rahoe --passwordfile password.dat --image 'c:\testit.cmd' 
}}}

Tested with following environments:
* Host: Ubuntu Linux 14.04 x86_64
* Guest: Windows 7
* Guest: Windows 8.1

See also ticket #14506

Note: as a workaround I set the five environment variables listed above using the ""--putenv""-Option of VBoxManage; then all tested applications works as with VirtualBox 4.3, e. g. MS Office 2010, VMWare VSphere 5.5, CorelDraw 11",defect,closed,guest control,VirtualBox 5.0.6,fixed,guestcontrol run start execute,,Windows,Linux