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Bug 955867 - app-emulation/virtualbox-7.1.x: RDP connection to VirtualBox VM will cause VM to abort immediately on headless server
Summary: app-emulation/virtualbox-7.1.x: RDP connection to VirtualBox VM will cause VM...
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: Normal major
Assignee: Viorel Munteanu
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Reported: 2025-05-12 08:24 UTC by klockren
Modified: 2025-05-12 08:37 UTC (History)
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Description klockren 2025-05-12 08:24:03 UTC 
Versions affected: We have tested with 7.1.8 and 7.1.4.

app-emulation/virtualbox-extpack-oracle-7.1.8
app-emulation/virtualbox-7.1.8-r1

We have headless servers where VirtualBox is built without a GUI.
According to Gentoo Wiki at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/VirtualBox , a headless server can build VirtualBox 7.0.4+ with the gui, opengl, and sdl USE flags disabled.

The problem arises when the binary "Oracle VirtualBox Extension Pack" is installed to achieve RDP functionality (which is quite important on headless servers).

If VirtualBox is emerged without the sdl USE flag, a VM will change its state to "aborted" as soon as an RDP client tries to connect to it.

RDP was working again as exprected after VirtualBox was re-emerged with the +sdl USE flag. This was tested on multiple machines and VirtualBox versions with the same result.

This might be resolved by requiring the +sdl USE flag for app-emulation/virtualbox when installing app-emulation/virtualbox-extpack-oracle