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Bug 671354 - app-emulation/virtualbox-6.0.0_beta2: Failed to open a session for the virtual machine.
Summary: app-emulation/virtualbox-6.0.0_beta2: Failed to open a session for the virtua...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2018-11-17 16:05 UTC by Perfect Gentleman
Modified: 2018-12-07 21:42 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Perfect Gentleman 2018-11-17 16:05:19 UTC 
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Windows_7_32_bit.
Details:
Could not launch a process for the machine 'Windows_7_32_bit' (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND).
Result Code: 
VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80BB0005)
Component: 
MachineWrap
Interface: 
IMachine {cfc5671a-2309-4893-8744-ba4c07d65d86}


This VM works fine with VBox-5.2.2
Comment 1 Perfect Gentleman 2018-11-17 16:06:55 UTC 
 $ VBoxManage startvm Windows_7_32_bit
VBoxManage: error: Could not launch a process for the machine 'Windows_7_32_bit' (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)
VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80bb0005), component MachineWrap, interface IMachine, callee nsISupports
VBoxManage: error: Context: "LaunchVMProcess(a->session, sessionType.raw(), Bstr(strEnv).raw(), progress.asOutParam())" at line 729 of file VBoxManageMisc.cpp
Comment 2 Perfect Gentleman 2018-11-17 16:07:30 UTC 
but it starts in headless mode
Comment 3 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2018-11-17 20:30:31 UTC 
That's something I need to ask upstream about...
Comment 4 Martin Jansa 2018-11-22 16:43:41 UTC 
It works for me if I add "--type sdl"
Comment 5 Perfect Gentleman 2018-11-23 02:37:31 UTC 
(In reply to Martin Jansa from comment #4)
> It works for me if I add "--type sdl"
where? to what?
Comment 6 Perfect Gentleman 2018-11-23 05:29:30 UTC 
(In reply to Perfect Gentleman from comment #5)
> (In reply to Martin Jansa from comment #4)
> > It works for me if I add "--type sdl"
> where? to what?

i got it
Comment 7 Mads 2018-12-05 12:55:02 UTC 
--type sdl is merely a workaround, almost nothing of the gui stuff works if you use it. No mouse, no host key shortcuts etc.
Comment 8 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2018-12-07 21:42:22 UTC 
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=be4b63a80148cc9f6c1d4f305ef3a1a28f52d676

commit be4b63a80148cc9f6c1d4f305ef3a1a28f52d676
Author:     Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2018-12-07 20:29:55 +0000
Commit:     Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2018-12-07 21:42:15 +0000

    app-emulation/virtualbox: fixed qt5 gui session startup
    
    added some missing symlinks, and enhanced the wrapper script a bit more.
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/671354
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.52, Repoman-2.3.12
    Signed-off-by: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>

 app-emulation/virtualbox/files/virtualbox-ose-6-wrapper |  3 +++
 app-emulation/virtualbox/virtualbox-6.0.0_beta3.ebuild  | 15 +++++++--------
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)