Hello Peter, Unfortunately this is because your OS is too "stable" :) VirtualBox 4.x support has been broken since Sailfish OS SDK 1707.
As a workaround until this is fixed you can create the following wrapper for VBoxManage: cat > ~/SailfishOS/bin/VBoxManage <<END #!/bin/bash real=$(which -a "$(basename "$0")" |sed -n 2p) if [[ ! $real ]]; then echo "Broken PATH?" >&2 exit 1 fi if [[ $1 == "showvminfo" ]]; then "$real" "$@" |sed '/^Session type:/ { p; s/type:/name:/ }' else "$real" "$@" fi END chmod +x ~/SailfishOS/bin/VBoxManage And then use this to launch the IDE PATH="$HOME/SailfishOS/bin:$PATH" ~/SailfishOS/bin/qtcreator BR, Martin ________________________________________ From: Devel [devel-boun...@lists.sailfishos.org] on behalf of Peter Albrecht [pa-...@gmx.de] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2017 6:36 PM To: devel@lists.sailfishos.org Subject: [SailfishDevel] Qt creator fails to connect to virtual machines Hello list, I wanted to work on SailfishOS applications, so I installed the "SailfishOS Application SDK" on my linux desktop. Everything went fine, but when I wanted to start "Sailfish OS Build Engine" or "Sailfish OS Emulator" from within Qt Creator, the "General Messages"-Tab of Qt Creator tells me: * Error connecting to "Sailfish OS Build Engine" virtual machine: Failed to start virtual machine "Sailfish OS Build Engine" * Error connecting to "Sailfish OS Emulator" virtual machine: Failed to start virtual machine "Sailfish OS Emulator" In file "~/.xsession-errors" I can read: * MerConnection: "Failed to start virtual machine \"Sailfish OS Build Engine\"" * MerConnection: "Failed to start virtual machine \"Sailfish OS Emulator\"" But nothing more about the Application SDK. The virtual machines seem to start up: VirtualBox is telling me that they are running. The emulator is showing me a SailfishOS GUI, which I can use by swiping like my Jolla device. And to the Build Engine I can connect via ssh using: > ssh -i /opt/sailfishos-sdk/vmshare/ssh/private_keys/engine/root -p 2222 > root@localhost Do you have any ideas, what might be the problem? Or which log-files to check? Versions in use: * SDK: SailfishOSSDK-Beta-1709-Qt5-linux-64-offline.run * Debian Linux 8 Jessie * VirtualBox 4.3.36 Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list To unsubscribe, please send a mail to devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org _______________________________________________ SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list To unsubscribe, please send a mail to devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org