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Changes between Initial Version and Version 3 of Ticket #19706

Timestamp:: 07/28/2020 01:58:25 PM (3 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 changed from new to accepted
- Property Owner set to paulson
- Property Version changed from VirtualBox 6.1.10 to VirtualBox 6.1.4
- Property Summary changed from MacOS Mojave and VboxHeadless to MacOS hosts no longer able to run VBoxHeadless as of 6.0.18 and 6.1.4

-                      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.