VMs not detected as running?

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str0belight
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VMs not detected as running?

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I got my VMs running, decided to call it for the weekend, woke up the computer today (opensuse), and the manager gui, for some reason it showed my VMs were powered off, but they obviously were not, as I can select them and type away.

Opened my terminal and ran:

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(kshaffer-desk)~ $ VBoxManage list vms
"Kens 2nd Home Windows 10" {9cfde872-dc00-474a-a436-8547537ed241}
"rhhost1" {4d0ad7db-a91e-4d9f-9262-0e72e56203cc}
"rhhost2" {80a6b1d1-8356-4b88-9323-1bacb37f577b}
(kshaffer-desk)~ $ VBoxManage list runningvms
(kshaffer-desk)~ $ 

Note that the result of "runningvms" is empty.

Ran my ps command again after enlarging the window area and can see that the same VM ids are actually running.

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(kshaffer-desk)~ $ r ps
ps -ef|egrep "vbox|virt"
kshaffer  9990 22924  0 Oct31 ?        00:00:19 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxXPCOMIPCD
kshaffer  9996 22924  0 Oct31 ?        00:00:51 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSVC --auto-shutdown
kshaffer 10078  9996  0 Oct31 ?        00:15:03 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBoxVM --comment rhhost2 --startvm 80a6b1d1-8356-4b88-9323-1bacb37f577b --no-startvm-errormsgbox
kshaffer 10213  9996  0 Oct31 ?        00:15:01 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBoxVM --comment rhhost1 --startvm 4d0ad7db-a91e-4d9f-9262-0e72e56203cc --no-startvm-errormsgbox
kshaffer 14840 19788  0 09:06 pts/4    00:00:00 grep -E --color=auto vbox|virt

I'm running opensuse 15.2, and keeping patches up to date. Virtualbox is Version 6.1.14_SUSE r140239. My guests are CentOS8, but for this issue, don't think it matters.
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