Bug? Program is non-responsive using guestcontrol

[MarkMPereyra]

I *might* end up reporting this as a bug, but I wanted to get people's thoughts first.

The setup:

I have VBox 4.3.6 on a Win7 host running a Win7 guest. On that guest, I've downloaded and extracted the Android ADT bundle (from developer.android dot com).

Expected behavior:

If I manually invoke (that is, browse through Windows and double click) the ADT Eclipse, then select File > Import > Android > Existing code, then click browse, then everything works exactly like it's supposed to -- in particular, the browse dialog works. Screenshot: i.imgur dot com/7mDVNrW.png.

The unexpected result:

But if I invoke the ADT Eclipse through guestcontrol:

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"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage" guestcontrol "Win7_x64_Enterprise" exec --image "C:\Users\Developer\Android\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64\eclipse\eclipse.exe" --username Developer --password developer --timeout 14400000 --wait-exit

Then the browse dialog is blank and non-responsive. Screenshot: i.imgur dot com/Quo7cZ6.png.

This happens consistently. Does anyone have any thoughts? Is there any additional information I can provide to help figure this out?

[mpack]

"guestcontrol" requires VBox Guest Additions software running in the guest - and no GAs have been written for Android. I wouldn't expect that to change until Android x86 shows a marked increase in popularity.

[MarkMPereyra]

The guest, which is Win7, has Guest Additions installed.

[Perryg]

As I see this you are actually running an Android emulator, right? That may be an issue. Have you tried to actually run commands against the guest itself?

[MarkMPereyra]

No Android emulator. All I'm running is Eclipse.

[mpack]

Post (zipped) VM log file please.

[MarkMPereyra]

Attached. Though, I did a quick text search, and I don't see my guestcontrol invocation in there. Is there another log I should be grabbing? Or a way to make this one more verbose?

[MarkMPereyra]

I downloaded Eclipse standard and observed the same issue, so now we can forget all mentions of "Android". This issue affects Eclipse, and I have a simpler scenario and a more useful error message now.

If I start Eclipse normally (that is, double click in Windows), and I select File > Open, then I get the Open File dialog as expected.

But if I start Eclipse from guestcontrol and I select File > Open, then I get the error:

Location is not available
C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\Desktop refers to a location that is unavailable.

[mpack]

Sounds like you aren't logged in as the correct user.

[MarkMPereyra]

Logged in as "Developer", the only user on the machine, and guestcontrol command is also set to use username "Developer".