Autostart failure with hyphens in username

[Möhre]

Hi,

I researched for hours why my autostart.cfg does not work for another user on OSX 10.9.1, VBOX 4.3.12.

does not work:

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default_policy = deny
foo-bar = {
allow = true
}

works:

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default_policy = deny
foobar = {
allow = true
}

works (but is only a workaround because of too less security)

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default_policy = allow

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I now tested on another Mac with the same behaviour.

Here are the steps for reproduction:

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sudo su
cp /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/org.virtualbox.vboxautostart.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons
vim /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.virtualbox.vboxautostart.plist

org.virtualbox.vboxautostart.plist

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...
  <key>Disabled</key>
---  <true/>
+++  <false/>
  <key>Label</key>
...

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mkdir /etc/vbox
vim /etc/vbox/autostart.cfg

autostart.cfg

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default_policy = deny
foo-bar = {
  allow = true
}

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chmod +x /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxAutostartDarwin.sh
chown root:wheel /etc/vbox
chown root:wheel /etc/vbox/autostart.cfg
chown root:wheel /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.virtualbox.vboxautostart.plist
su - foo-bar VBoxManage modifyvm <VM NAME> --autostart-enabled on
su - foo-bar VBoxManage modifyvm <VM NAME> --autostop-type acpishutdown
launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.virtualbox.vboxautostart.plist

su - foo-bar VBoxManage list runningvms

none



Can anyone confirm this bug?


THX

[ChipMcK]

As I recall, most users of this feature are on Linux Hosts.
You may get a response there, VirtualBox on Linux Hosts.

[Möhre]

I was not sure if it is maybe only related to OSX

[ChipMcK]

I was not sure if it is maybe only related to OSX

LOL! Linux: starting the autostart service

[Möhre]

Nah, u got me wrong. I meant the misbehaviour... Maybe the Bug is only on OSX. Never tried a "normal" Linux distro.