Opened 5 years ago
Last modified 5 years ago
#18846 new defect
'VBoxManage showvminfo' while VM Settings is open causes VirtualBox to think the VM is running
| Reported by: | Socratis | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 6.0.10 |
| Keywords: | VBoxManage showvminfo, VM Settings | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | all | Host type: | all |
Description
Steps to recreate
- Create a new VM, or use an existing one.
- Open the VM Settings for the VM.
- On a Terminal run the command "
VBoxManage showvminfo <VM>". - VirtualBox warning complains that the VM is running:
The virtual machine that you are changing has been started. Only certain settings can be changed while a machine is running. All other changes will be lost if you close this window now.
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Yes, I can reproduce this in Linux Mint 19.2 with a Windows 10 Guest VM as well.
The CLI shows the following state for the VM before I open the settings dialog in the GUI:
State:powered off (since 2019-08-17T07:59:33.950000000)
clearly this is a bug. VBoxManage showvminfo <vm> does work regardless and provides the CLI output, it is only the GUI which spits out this warning window about the running VM before opening the settings dialog once the user confirms the warning message window.