On 06/12/2013 08:18, Toralf Lund wrote: > On 06/12/13 04:15, Anthony K wrote: >> On 06/12/13 01:08, Toralf Lund wrote: >>> OK. So it's my system. >>> >>> - Toralf >>> >> Not necessarily! I wouldn't worry too much about VirtualBox 4.3 - it is >> terribly hosed; I suggest you downgrade back to 4.2.20 which, > Problem is, I also tried a couple of different releases of 4.2.20, with > the same result... > >> like >> Giles, I've been using without any adverse effects for a while. I too >> run a headless server but make use of VRDE where I need to access a >> Windows host! > Maybe headless works, and the normal GUI startup doesn't? Actually, I > VBoxHeadless does seem to start, but I'm not quite sure how to verify > that it works the way it should. > > ( > > [toralf at osl-71465 ~]$ VirtualBox -startvm Win7partition > Segmentation fault > [toralf at osl-71465 ~]$ VirtualBox > Segmentation fault > [toralf at osl-71465 ~]$ VBoxHeadless -startvm Win7partition > Oracle VM VirtualBox Headless Interface 4.3.4 > (C) 2008-2013 Oracle Corporation > All rights reserved. > > ) > > > - Toralf > > I usually exclusively use vboxmanage and the vbox web-service (through phpVirtualbox), but out of interest to your problem yesterday I ran a X server on my system and ran the Virtualbox GUI (v.4.2.20) on my server, it seemed to show all my servers running OK etc... I didn't try to interact with them, but it didn't seg-fault. I sometimes also use VRDE bound to localhost 127.0.0.1 as well... -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk giles at coochey.net