Re: [HTCondor-users] VirtualBox: Guest user vs. Condor account!?!

[Rob <spamrefuse@xxxxxxxxx>]

The procedure to follow should be:

1. create a new virtual machine environment
2. attach the virtual disk (from the Condor file transfer) to the new virtual machine
3. start the virtual machine.

VBoxHeadless.exe cannot do steps 1 and 2, but that must be done with VBoxManage.exe.
This is also suggested on the VirtualBox website:

http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch07.html#idp13097712


Hence: first use VBoxManage.exe to set everything up for the new VM,
and then use VBoxHeadless.exe to start the VM
(the options with VBoxHeadless.exe are limited to already created VMs).


Rob.



----- Original Message -----
From: Rich Pieri <ratinox@xxxxxxx>
To: htcondor-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: 
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 1:01 AM
Subject: Re: [HTCondor-users] VirtualBox: Guest user vs. Condor account!?!

On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:42:18 -0600
"John (TJ) Knoeller" <johnkn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Another thing that is different is that jobs running under HTCondor
> don't have access to the Windows Desktop.  It's possible that the
> VirtualBox server won't start under those conditions.

This seems likely. vboxmanage.exe tries to open a window which won't
work if there is no desktop. Try using vboxheadless.exe to start the VM.

-- 
Rich Pieri <ratinox@xxxxxxx>
MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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