ExtPack installed, Remote Desktop Extension is not available

[Michał Sawicz]

Regardless of installing the extension pack, I can't get VRDE to work, the logs report:

VRDE: VirtualBox Remote Desktop Extension is not available.

ExtPack is installed:

# ls /opt/VirtualBox/ExtensionPacks/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack/
darwin.amd64  ExtPack-license.html  ExtPack-license.txt  ExtPack.signature  linux.amd64  PXE-Intel.rom  solaris.x86  win.x86
darwin.x86    ExtPack-license.rtf   ExtPack.manifest     ExtPack.xml        linux.x86    solaris.amd64  win.amd64

That's Debian 6.0 with VBox installed from either packages or the .run script.

Please find the log file and .vbox file attached.

[Michał Sawicz]

For some reason it required a reboot.

[Frank Mehnert]

Can't reproduce. If I start a VM without the extension pack installed the VRDE server is indeed not usable. But then I terminate the VM, install the extension pack, restart the VM and this time the VM has the VRDE server enabled. Did you stop the VM after you installed the extension pack?

[Michał Sawicz]

Yes I have restarted the vm, restarted vboxdrv and vboxweb-service to no avail. I had to reboot the host and now it's fine.

[Frank Mehnert]

Hmm. The settings in your .vbox file show that VRDE is disabled (<RemoteDisplay enabled="false"...)

[Michał Sawicz]

As soon as I rebooted, the "Remote Display" tab was available, without any other ingerence from me. So I suppose this setting is reset to false unless VRDP is available.

[Jaga]

Same here. Host system is Oracle Linux Server release 5.7 x86_64.

00:00:00.366 Installed Extension Packs:
00:00:00.366   Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack (Version: 4.1.26 r84997; VRDE Module: VBoxVRDP)
00:00:00.367 VRDE: VirtualBox Remote Desktop Extension is not available.

[Jaga]

Absolutely the same is in VBox 4.2.14.

[Frank Mehnert]

Please attach the complete VBox.log files from a 4.1.26 session as well as from a 4.2.14 session. My guess is that you mix the extension packs.

[Jaga]

I have attached logs for the 4.1.26 session. For 4.2.14 will attach now.

I am not mixing extension packs, I have checked it several times.

[Jaga]

VBox.log for the VirtualBox 4.2.14

[Jaga]

.vbox file for the VirtualBox 4.2.14

[aeichner]

Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.