[winswitch] Virtualbox Vm access

Randy thejunk.b at gmail.com
Tue Oct 10 23:31:31 BST 2017


On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 5:00:28 PM EDT Antoine Martin via shifter-users 
wrote:
> Sorry for the slow response, I've let this one slip.
Actually your timing is almost perfect, with the High Holy Days and a vacation 
I have not had time to look at it anymore before now.
> 
> Are you using the built-in virtualbox menu entries of winswitch?
> Or starting virtualbox from a terminal forwarded via xpra?
Menu entries.
> 
> > 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.
> 
Agreed.  I am not real familiar with Mac and I don't think I have the settings 
right.

> > 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.
OK 

> > 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.
There must have been some old lib's in use as this went away after a reboot, 
don't remember which machine though.

> 
> > 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

A question before creating a ticket.  I did update winswitch on the mac with 
the most recent from the site, as the version on it was quite old.
Did that also update xpra? 
Or is that a separate update?

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