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sayonalion

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Registered: 2016-10-25

Posts: 46

Start a VirtualBox VM on another TTY

Hi.

How can I start a VirtualBox virtual machine in a separate X session on another TTY?

Thanks.

kokoko3k

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Registered: 2008-11-14

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Re: Start a VirtualBox VM on another TTY

check here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ga … e_X_server

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sayonalion

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Registered: 2016-10-25

Posts: 46

Re: Start a VirtualBox VM on another TTY

I can run different programs in separate sessions. For example, for Firefox I run

startx /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -- :2 vt4

That way the browser starts successfully at a display 2 and TTY 4.

However, when I run

startx /usr/bin/vboxmanage startvm VM1 -- :2 vt4

The session is started, but it is finished immediately after start. I get the following output:

<...>
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.2.log", Time: Thu Dec 21 15:52:38 2017
<...>
Waiting for VM "VM1" to power on...
VM "VM1" has been successfully started.
xinit: connection to X server lost
<...>

Despite of this failure, I haven't got any errors in Xorg.2.log.

What can I do about this?