Heads up about OSX 10.11 DP

[michaln]

I thought you were on 10.11. Oh well. ciao.

Sorry if I wasn't clear -- I meant you're probably the first trying to collect a VBox core dump on 10.11. Yes, I tried a 5.0 build on 10.11 and had no trouble starting a VM from the GUI.

[loukingjr]

I see. I wonder which 5.0 build that was.

[loukingjr]

I'm getting confused…

Sorry if I wasn't clear -- I meant you're probably the first trying to collect a VBox core dump on 10.11. Yes, I tried a 5.0 build on 10.11 and had no trouble starting a VM from the GUI.

From a week ago…

Yesterday I installed the 10.11 DP (or beta or whatever it's called nowadays) and was able to install VirtualBox 4.3.28 without any complaint from the OS. I haven't tried any 5.0 build. I did not make any prior changes, it was a completely clean install of 10.11 in a freshly formatted partition.

As you already mentioned, VirtualBox couldn't see any USB devices, and I'm not sure about the bridged/host-only networking functionality.

So here is where things stand for me with OS X 10.11 (15A204h)…

1. VB 4.3.28 Installs and runs.
2. VB 4.3.29, 5.0 RC1 and RC2 won't install.
3. The post RC2 build r101390 will install but I can only launch guests from the terminal using…

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/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VirtualBox -startvm VM_NAME

[loukingjr]

Installed RC3. Same problem

I also did a clean install of OSX 10.11 on an external partition then installed RC3. Same problem.

From the RC3 announcement…

Mac OS X hosts: El Capitan fixes

Not that I can tell.

[loukingjr]

Since guests run normally when started directly from the terminal, I'm thinking however guests are launched from the GUI, a typo was introduced at some point.

Or it could be related to this which I posted before…

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7/2/15 4:26:56.725 AM VirtualBox[4469]: WARNING: The Gestalt selector gestaltSystemVersion is returning 10.9.0 instead of 10.11.0. This is not a bug in Gestalt -- it is a documented limitation. Use NSProcessInfo's operatingSystemVersion property to get correct system version number.

I'm thinking it might be important for VB to know which version of OSX it's running on.

[loukingjr]

I was mistaken about launching guests through the terminal. There are a number of problems with that method including losing connections.

Personally I have given up on VB 5.0 until I'm sure it works on OSX 10.11. Have rolled back to VB 4.3.28.

[frank]

Build 101470 should work on El Capitan.

[loukingjr]

So far so good.

I would have said something sooner but I fainted.

I'm not sure but it may be necessary to reboot after installing before trying to run any guests. The first guest I tried crashed the host but once restarted it seems fine so far. It could have just been an anomaly. Will be testing further.

[loukingjr]

USB appears not to be working still but things are much better now.

[loukingjr]

Many Linux guests do not remember their previous window size once shutdown. VB 5.0 RC3 r101470.