Re: [VBox-users] broken VBoxManage in VirtualBox 4.3.6 ?

2014-04-24 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Jerry Kemp sun.mail.lis...@oryx.cc wrote: I was (trying) to execute VBoxManage as root. hey Frank the rest of devs, don't you think the error message is a bit obscure? a failure in some .cpp source code line? How about plain English? You cannot run vboxmanage

Re: [VBox-users] broken VBoxManage in VirtualBox 4.3.6 ?

2014-04-24 Thread Michael Thayer
Hello Fernando, On 24/04/14 08:52, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Jerry Kemp sun.mail.lis...@oryx.cc mailto:sun.mail.lis...@oryx.cc wrote: I was (trying) to execute VBoxManage as root. hey Frank the rest of devs, don't you think the error message is a bit

Re: [VBox-users] broken VBoxManage in VirtualBox 4.3.6 ?

2014-04-24 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 4:19 AM, Michael Thayer michael.tha...@oracle.comwrote: On the one hand VBoxManage is meant as an advanced user tool (and the first line of the message contains plain language information about the error), on the other I'm not sure if the rest of the information really

Re: [VBox-users] broken VBoxManage in VirtualBox 4.3.6 ?

2014-04-24 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 8:42 PM, Gregory Nowak g...@gregn.net wrote: That sounds fine. However, some people may want to run a guest as root, on a live CD for example. We're not talking about guests here. I think we're talking about running vboxmanage AS ROOT on the HOST. Or did I miss

[VBox-users] broken VBoxManage in VirtualBox 4.3.6 ?

2014-04-23 Thread Jerry Kemp
I am running VirtualBox 4.3.6 using OpenIndiana as a host system. . # uname -a SunOS u20m3 5.11 oi_151a7 i86pc i386 i86pc . I have a dozen different VM's installed/configured thru the VirtualBox GUI, and they all

Re: [VBox-users] broken VBoxManage in VirtualBox 4.3.6 ?

2014-04-23 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:41:01PM -0500, Jerry Kemp wrote: I am running VirtualBox 4.3.6 using OpenIndiana as a host system. . # uname -a SunOS u20m3 5.11 oi_151a7 i86pc i386 i86pc . I have a dozen

Re: [VBox-users] broken VBoxManage in VirtualBox 4.3.6 ?

2014-04-23 Thread Jerry Kemp
Thank you Greg. You nailed it. I had done everything else correctly, running as my standard UID. I was (trying) to execute VBoxManage as root. OS/2 1.0 is installing now. Thanks again, Jerry On 04/23/14 11:30 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: You are running vboxmanage as the same user running