Host: OSX 10.11.6 Guest: Any OSX VM Severity: STOP THE PRESSES!!!OSX has this feature called "Screen Sharing" under System Preferences » Sharing. It's a built-in VNC server. Launch any OSX VM, enable ScreenSharing, and then from the host's Finder you can see the VM. Click on the "Share Screen..." on the host's Finder and a credentials dialog pops up. Fill that in and you're screen sharing the VM.
It broke!!! Somewhere between r126642 and r126868 the credentials dialog never comes up, it's stuck at the "Connecting to VM..." until it times out and fails.
This is happening if the VM is using the HostOnly adapter. If the VM uses a Bridged adapter it works, including with 6.0.0b3 r127054.
Thanks to okluss for helping me pinpoint this to the HostOnly adapter and not to the whole VNC issue as I originally thought.
I believe this is due to the recent VNC/RDP fixes/patches:
- Segmentation Fault on Enabling VNC while VM is Running (Patch availabe)
- VNC Broken on VirtualBox 5.2.20 OSE
- VNC/RDP doesn't work at all => Fixed in SVN
It fails with 6.0.0b3 r127054 as well.