Hi, Sounds like $HOME is not returning the location of the .VirtualBox directory. That's why VBoxManage does not list anything: it looks for .VirtualBox, finds none (or an empty one), then lists nothing.
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Harry Putnam <[email protected]> wrote: > I've attempted to get some help on this twice before recently. I got > one replay informing me that the posting user could run VBoxManager > from cygwin shell and successfully `list vms' > > Is there no one here who has an idea how to debug this? > Is the content of my posts too lame to deserve attention? > > My setup must be very similar to the one reply I got about cygwin: > > Lan with linux and windows7 machines, One windows7 machine has 2 vms > installed from Vbox. Both are running some kind of solaris guests. > That win7 box also has cygwin installed. > > My usage usually would be to ssh into the windows box, which puts me > in a cygwin shell. > > echo $SHELL > /bin/bash > > And cygwin bash is the only one installed. > > And `which VboxManage' shows: > which VboxManage > /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Oracle/VirtualBox/VboxManage > > I think I've updated twice.. and now running: > > VboxManage -v > 4.1.6r74713 > > These commands (below) used to get the expected responses... > > In that shell the command `VboxManage list vms' pauses a moment and > then returns me to the shell prompt... no output. > > Something like `VboxManage startvm voi', returns output that seems to > indicate that VboxManage does not know anything about any vms > installed and seems to indicate there is some registering process. > > Ditto for VboxManage list -l runningvms > Again no output at all, even though two vms are currently running > > Is it possible to re-register or whatever, the installed vms so that > VboxManage knows about them > > VboxManage startvm voi > VboxManage.exe: error: Could not find a registered machine named 'voi' > > VboxManage.exe: error: Details: code VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND > (0x80bb0001), component VirtualBox, interface IVirtualBox, callee > IUnknown Context: "FindMachine(Bstr(pszVM).raw(), > machine.asOutParam())" at line 544 of file VBoxManageMisc.cpp > > The VboxManage tool is so involved its not so easy to see how to get > some better debug information or how to debug this situation. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure > contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, > security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this > data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d > _______________________________________________ > VBox-users-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community > -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
