'vboxmanage list runningvms' FAILs to list running VMs

[pgnd]

noting this similar symptom, from a still open issue

"vboxmanage list runningvms does not list anything" https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6808#propertyform

Opened 10 years ago
Last modified 4 years ago

has that been fixed/addressed elsewhere?

here, running latest VB release

	VBoxManage --version
		6.1.6r137129

on host,

	lsb_release -rd
		Description:    openSUSE Leap 15.1
		Release:        15.1

checking available vms, correctly returns

	> VBoxManage list vms
		"Debian_Stable" {...}
		"Win10_Pro" {...}
		"openSUSE_Leap" {...}
	>

if i launch a guest, e.g.

	"openSUSE_Leap"

is, atm, up & running ... and accessible,

	ps ax | grep vir
		24799 ?        Sl     0:16 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox
		24816 ?        S      0:08 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxXPCOMIPCD
		24822 ?        Sl     0:19 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSVC --auto-shutdown
		40167 ?        Sl     0:27 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBoxVM --comment openSUSE_Leap --startvm ... --no-startvm-errormsgbox
		40176 ?        S      0:00 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxXPCOMIPCD
		40182 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSVC --auto-shutdown

but checking RUNNING vms, still (again?) returns blank

	> VBoxManage list runningvms
	> 

[fbatschu]

are you sure that the user running the VMs and the user trying to list the VMs are the same and not by any chance different?

Linux lserver 5.3.0-46-generic #38~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 31 04:17:56 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
VERSION="18.04.4 LTS (Bionic Beaver)"
fbatschu@lserver:~$  VBoxManage --version
6.1.6r137129

fbatschu@lserver:~$ ps -eafd|grep vir
fbatschu 12426  5538  0 12:39 ?        00:02:48 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox
fbatschu 12448     1  0 12:39 ?        00:02:52 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxXPCOMIPCD
fbatschu 12454     1  1 12:39 ?        00:06:55 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSVC --auto-shutdown
fbatschu 12556 12454  0 12:39 ?        00:00:05 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxNetDHCP --comment HostInterfaceNetworking-vboxnet0 --config /home/fbatschu/.config/VirtualBox/HostInterfaceNetworking-vboxnet0-Dhcpd.config --log /home/fbatschu/.config/VirtualBox/HostInterfaceNetworking-vboxnet0-Dhcpd.log
fbatschu 20681 12454  9 19:59 ?        00:11:15 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBoxVM --comment OL6 --startvm 569239c1-689c-4daa-9512-0140ccef1199 --no-startvm-errormsgbox

fbatschu@lserver:~$  VBoxManage list runningvms
"OL6" {569239c1-689c-4daa-9512-0140ccef1199}

fbatschu@lserver:~$ su - root
Password: 
root@lserver:~#  VBoxManage list runningvms
root@lserver:~# 

[fbatschu]

also I cannot reproduce this on a Windows 10 host either.