Hi,

I am using VirtualBox-OSE and phpVirtualBox. If I use "Save the machine state" from phpVirtualBox and then "Start", the state of the VM is not recognized by rc script vboxheadless:

# service vboxheadless status
                  Machine Status
------------------------- ------------
              FreeBSD_one Powered Off
              FreeBSD_two Powered Off
            FreeBSD_three Powered Off
             FreeBSD_four Powered Off
             FreeBSD_five Powered Off
              FreeBSD_six Powered Off
             SmartOs_live Powered Off


But the VM FreeBSD_four is still running:


# /usr/local/bin/VBoxManage showvminfo FreeBSD_four | grep -i state
State:           running (since 2012-06-20T21:30:56.211000000)

# /usr/local/bin/VBoxManage list runningvms
"FreeBSD_four" {14d0f837-bd84-432a-8a8b-ee48b247d3ef}


The FreeBSD_four VM is really running, I can log in to it by ssh.


One problem I found is different PID of running process and in PID file:


# ps auxwww | grep -i vboxheadless
root 61699 200.0 8.6 2228216 2157712 ?? I Wed11PM 10707:27.35 /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VBoxHeadless --comment FreeBSD_four --startvm 14d0f837-bd84-432a-8a8b-ee48b247d3ef --vrde config


# cat /var/run/vboxheadless_FreeBSD_four.pid
61275


rc script contains this check:


/usr/bin/su ${vmuser} -c "/usr/local/bin/VBoxManage showvminfo '${vmname}' >/dev/null" 2>/dev/null

if [ $? != 0 ]; then
    /usr/bin/printf "%20s %s\n" "${vmname}" "Unknown Machine"
elif [ -n "${pid}" ]; then
    /usr/bin/printf "%25s %s\n" "${vmname}" "Running"
else
    /usr/bin/printf "%25s %s\n" "${vmname}" "Powered Off"
fi


Is it really right way to check it? Why not use something, that checks real state of the VM reported by

VBoxManage showvminfo FreeBSD_four | grep 'State:'


This is on FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE amd64 GENERIC with virtualbox-ose-4.1.16_1 and phpvirtualbox-4.1.7


Miroslav Lachman
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