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Hwoarang
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Joined: 24 Feb 2007
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Location: Leeds, UK
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 Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 11:33 am Post subject: How to shutdown an unresponsive virtualbox machine? |
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Hi,
Seems one of my vm boxes has locked up. I can't really perform any action on it
I started the vm using "VboxHeadless -s <vmname>"
But when I try to stop it using "VboxManage controlvm <vmname> poweroff or reset " the command hangs
If I try to start it again I get
| Code: | VBoxHeadless: error: The machine 'gentoo-testing' is already locked for a session (or being unlocked)
VBoxHeadless: error: Details: code VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE (0x80bb0007), component Machine, interface IMachine, callee nsISupports
Context: "LockMachine(session, LockType_Write)" at line 857 of file VBoxHeadless.cpp
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Any ideas? I really don't want to restart the real host just to make virtualbox work again. |
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Etal
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry for an obvious question, but wouldn't kill -9 work?
(On a different note, any reason you're using vbox over kvm? Virtulbox seems to cause quite a bit of trouble)
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DaggyStyle
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:08 am Post subject: |
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why not just log in into the machine and shut it down?
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