[winswitch] Virtualbox Vm access

[Antoine Martin]

Sorry for the slow response, I've let this one slip.

On 02/10/17 00:30, Randy via shifter-users wrote:
> First, thanks for a great program.
> 
> I don't use winswitch much but I now would like to be able to access a win7-vm 
> on a Mac laptop. There is a windows specific app in the vm that needs to be 
> accessed from the Mac laptop.  The win7-vm is hosted on Debian Squeeze 
> (stable) server. I can access the vm from a Debian Squeeze laptop (although I 
> can't seam to get the screen size right, but that is a separate issue).  But 
> when I try from the Mac laptop the vm will start OK but will not display on 
> the Mac. Yet I can pull/push it to the Debian laptop.  I have been through the 
> server configs and have not been able to find a reason that it does not work.
Are you using the built-in virtualbox menu entries of winswitch?
Or starting virtualbox from a terminal forwarded via xpra?

> Also maybe related, I am unable to launch any other app hosted on the Debian 
> Squeeze server and have the output displayed on the Mac laptop.
Sounds like there's something fundamentally wrong there.

> I also can't 
> find any debug info in .winswitch/server/sessions which is useful in helping fix 
> the issue. The only thing I did find was that the server was complaining that 
> "user is not a member of the xpra group". Adding the user to the group did not 
> help.
That's just a harmless warning.

> Related ? From the Deiban laptop I am able to launch and access the win7-vm 
> and start simple terminal applications but I am unable to launch LibreOffice.
IIRC, libreoffice is one of those applications that doesn't support
multiple instances per user. That may well be the problem here.

> I 
> have debugging enabled but can't find any useful info to help resolve the 
> issue.
To debug this, I would start a plain xpra session without winswitch and
connect from the macos system, then gradually make things more
complicated until something breaks. ie:
* forward just an xterm via xpra
* start libreoffice
* start virtualbox
* add winswitch into the mix

There isn't enough information there to be able to help you.
Please try to create a ticket here:
https://winswitch.org/trac/
And follow the bug reporting guidelines found here:
http://xpra.org/trac/wiki/ReportingBugs

Cheers
Antoine

> 
> I have not found any useful info via Google either.
> 
> Thank you
>