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Hello,

I didn't used Virtualbox for a week or two,

Today, I Tried to run one of my machine and it aborted.

I Created a Brand new vm ( using ubuntu 14.04 ISO, and a NAT interface)
the closest to de default settings as possible

The I used the following commands:

lt-ec:~ ec$ VBoxManage list vms
...
"test" {1eac68c8-05db-468d-817f-77f0f54ae8f9}
lt-ec:~ ec$ VBoxManage startvm  test
Waiting for VM "test" to power on...
VM "test" has been successfully started.
lt-ec:~ ec$ VBoxManage startvm  test --type=headless
Waiting for VM "test" to power on...
VM "test" has been successfully started.
lt-ec:~ ec$

I attached the log files for the respective runs...



Mys System

MacbookPro retina 15 " end 2014 16GB RAM Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4870HQ CPU @ 2.50GHz
OSX Yosemite 10.10.2
Virtual box 4.3.20
Virtualbox extension pack 4.3.20r96996


Any ideas for helping me diagnosing this issue ?
Thanks in advance,
Etienne

I tried to diagnose and found this:

I opened the "Console" Application and looked at the System.log file

Just before aborting the vm, such a line was output in the system.log:

Feb  5 19:36:31 lt-ec.private.network VBoxHeadless[1251]: The application with bundle ID org.virtualbox.app.VirtualBox is running setugid(), 
which is not allowed.

Does it ring bells in heads ?
Thanks for your support

Try to run without arguments:

VBoxManage

This will give you a list of options. The -s starts your VM. I didn't see one option for stopping the VM. Funny. I guess you'll have to stop it with VBoxManage. So try (with a VM that you're willing to abort) to run:

VBoxManage -s <YourVM>

I got a question about allowing it through the firewall ( on 10.6.8 ), which may trigger something in the allowed applications list. I had run headless VMs before mind you, just not with VBoxHeadless...

Hello,

I think I found the culprit !

As soon as I uninstalled ncryptedcloud , I was able to start virtual machines in headless mode.

Just to be sure, I reinstalled ncryptedcloud and ... bardaf.... headless vm aborted while booting.

For now, I'm just removing ncryptedcloud and post a feedback on their site !

Thanks for the help ans sorry for the noise !
Etienne

PS: cannot post the but the web site is encryptedcloud dot com