Changes between Initial Version and Version 3 of Ticket #19706

Timestamp:: Jul 28, 2020 1:58:25 PM (4 years ago)
Author:: paulson
Comment:: This is related to the VirtualBox hardened runtime which I didn't run into since this Mac system has System Integrity Protection (SIP) disabled. Once I re-enabled SIP I was able to reproduce the problem and have a fix in progress. This issue was introduced in VirtualBox 6.0.18 and 6.1.4.

Ticket #19706
- Property Status new → accepted
- Property Owner set to paulson
- Property Version VirtualBox 6.1.10 → VirtualBox 6.1.4
- Property Summary MacOS Mojave and VboxHeadless → MacOS hosts no longer able to run VBoxHeadless as of 6.0.18 and 6.1.4

Ticket #19706 – Description

-              initial
+              v3
 It is impossible to launch a VM in headless mode because of a problem of setugid which is not allowed.
+It works fine with Virtualobox 1.6.2 but not with the following versions.
+It works fine with VirtualBox 6.1.2 but not with the following versions.
+The error message seen is:
+$ /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxHeadless -s solaris
+Oracle VM VirtualBox Headless Interface 6.1.4
+(C) 2008-2020 Oracle Corporation
+All rights reserved.
+-07-24 09:40:25.798 VBoxHeadless[2026:18559] The application with bundle ID org.virtualbox.app.VirtualBox is running setugid(), which is not allowed.