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mcover

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-01-25

Posts: 134

[solved] VirtualBox 3.0 config path behaviour breaks previous setup

Hey,

VirtualBox just got upgraded to 3.0 in community. Yay! Thank you maintainer!

Now I just wanted to try it out, but I see all my machines I had previously just won't show up anymore. A little digging deeper shows me that the machines and images still exist in ~/.VirtualBox/ but thats not where 3.0 seems to be looking. Even though I started VBox as a normal user, it creates a new .VirtualBox folder in /root with user=root and group=users. Also the settings show default folders for machines and images to be /root/.VirtualBox. Setting those to ~/.VirtualBox/ won't work, since VBox is still looking for VirtualBox.xml in /root/.VirtualBox.

I'm reluctant to copy and manually edit my previous config-files to /root, as I think its just plain wrong behaviour.

Can anybody confirm this?

I'm quite puzzled as to why VBox is behaving like this. If it is intended by the VBox devs, does anybody know how to get the old proper behaviour back? Asking before I file a bug-report somewhere..

Cheers,
m.

Last edited by mcover (2009-07-09 17:08:20)

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: [solved] VirtualBox 3.0 config path behaviour breaks previous setup

hmm. i thing this is my fault. i've suid some of binaries to make it right. i'm trying to fix that asap.

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mcover

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-01-25

Posts: 134

Re: [solved] VirtualBox 3.0 config path behaviour breaks previous setup

Thank you! Patiently waiting. Will report back.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: [solved] VirtualBox 3.0 config path behaviour breaks previous setup

fixed 3.0.0-2

Last edited by wonder (2009-07-08 15:18:39)

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mcover

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-01-25

Posts: 134

Re: [solved] VirtualBox 3.0 config path behaviour breaks previous setup

Working now. Got all my machines back. Thanks!!