[INVALID] Remote Display tab is dead/unusable

[birdie]

Host: Fedora 40

Issue: I cannot click/use the Remote Display tab in the VM settings dialog for either of my virtual machines. Alt + R doesn't work either.

Please fix.

[Byroniac]

Host: Fedora 40

Issue: I cannot click/use the Remote Display tab in the VM settings dialog for either of my virtual machines. Alt + R doesn't work either.

Please fix.

This functionality has moved to the Extension Pack which has to be installed in order to enable that tab.

[birdie]

This functionality has moved to the Extension Pack which has to be installed in order to enable that tab.

The extension pack is installed here.

Though I see some weird warning:

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Strace doesn't give any clues:

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strace -e file -fF VirtualBox 2>&1 | grep Extension
[pid 30322] statfs("/usr/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/", {f_type=EXT2_SUPER_MAGIC, f_bsize=4096, f_blocks=5149332, f_bfree=3704463, f_bavail=3700367, f_files=1310720, f_ffree=1207511, f_fsid={val=[0xb5e732b, 0xb5ec4eab]}, f_namelen=255, f_frsize=4096, f_flags=ST_VALID|ST_NOATIME}) = 0
[pid 30322] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = 19
[pid 30322] newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/..", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0
[pid 30322] newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0
[pid 30322] newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0
[pid 30322] newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0
[pid 30322] newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0
[pid 30322] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = 20
[pid 30322] newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack/PXE-Intel.rom", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=49152, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0
[pid 30322] newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack/ExtPack.xml", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=611, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0
[pid 30322] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack/ExtPack.xml", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 20
[pid 30322] newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0

Anyways, other features of the extension pack indeed work.

[klaus]

Try uninstalling the extension pack and re-installing. Wonder if we have a bug in the upgrade related to how the directory is named.

The point is: the full product name (also visible in the extension pack name/directory) until 7.0.x is "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and starting with 7.1.0 it is "Oracle VirtualBox".

[birdie]

The new location for the extension pack on Linux is:

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/usr/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/Oracle_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack

vs. Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack previously.

Keep that in mind. This issue is invalid.