Dbl-clicking on OVA, VBOX does nothing.

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socratis
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Dbl-clicking on OVA, VBOX does nothing.

Post by socratis »

Host: OSX 10.11.6.
Guest: N/A

Double clicking on an OVA (or a VBOX) file is supposed to activate VirtualBox and initiate an appropriate action.
  • 6.0.0b1 r126216: fails
  • 5.2.21 r126213: works
Installed both of them alternating multiple times, 6.0 fails always. Can anyone confirm (or deny) this behavior?
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Re: Dbl-clicking on OVA, VBOX does nothing.

Post by okiuss »

Double clicking on .vbox file -> Warning similar to "VirtualBox stopped unexpectedly"/no GUI
... but you can ignore this error/warning and the guest os runs fine.

Tested with
Host: 10.13.6
Guest: different macOs and Windows VMs

All 5.2 versions worked
6.0.0_BETA1 r125994 fails with this warning
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Re: Dbl-clicking on OVA, VBOX does nothing.

Post by socratis »

Thanks ocluss, but nope, I don't even get that. It's... "deaf". ;)
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