Return code to start VM is unreliable => Fixed in SVN

[Freek de Kruijf]

I have a shell script which runs as root to start a VM for a normal user. Since the newest version of VirtualBox, 4.1.2 the return code is unreliable. Sometimes it returns a failure where the VM is successfully started.

The script looks like this:

vboxmanage()
{
    CMD="/usr/bin/VBoxManage -nologo $@"
    su - freek -c "$CMD"
}
ERROR=0
vboxmanage startvm ktmhnewb -type vrdp 2>&1 3>&1 || ERROR=1
[ $ERROR -eq 1 ] && echo "VM did not start"
[ $ERROR -eq 1 ] && exit 1

[Freek de Kruijf]

VBox.log

[Frank Mehnert]

I think we found and fixed this problem. The fix should be available in the next maintenance release.

[Frank Mehnert]

Fix part of VBox 4.1.8.