how to show running vms with VBoxManage list runningvms

[Dirk_Lehmann]

If I enter:

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VBoxManage list runningvms

on the host I do not get any output. graphical interface shows running vms. how to use VBoxManage list runningvms corretly to get a output?

DL

[andyp73]

It looks as though you may be running the VBoxManage command as a different user to the one that started the virtual machines.

On my live Debian 9 machine they get started by a user called "virtualbox" and the VBoxManage command has to be run by that user. Running it as root, for example, shows no output.

-Andy.

[Dirk_Lehmann]

Might be, I tried it with my username and with superuser. Which user might it be? How to figure that out?

[andyp73]

Run "ps -aux" as root and look or grep through the output. The first field is the owner of the running process.

-Andy.

[Dirk_Lehmann]

Thank you very much, see maybe:

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dirk     22697  2.1  0.3 4903436 105952 ?      Sl   Mär26  78:35 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox --comment Webserver --startvm 59e4efc3-4866-4931-a560-92808

I was wondering why I do net get any output as dirk by using the command mentioned?!