Hello Jean-Jacques, > I had a little problem yesterday while testing. > > In order to solve this I have killed X and after entering > again in an X session, VirtualBox told me that the directory > (a soccket) /tmp/.vbox-<user>-ipc/ipcd can't be created/opened. > The reason was in front of the display, start as root but > without it environment (su;...; LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd` ./VBoxSVC) It isn't actually necessary to start VirtualBox as root. Occasionally problems do occur when VBox ipc related files do not get deleted in /tmp. If no copy of VirtualBox or of VBoxSVC (and friends) is running, you can just delete any of these files left in that directory.
> Starting only VirtualBox (no VBoxSVC) work. without problem > The advantage of starting VBoxSVC is only that we are informed > about a fews events. When you start the VirtualBox script, VBoxSVC should be started automatically. > If the Window system on the guest system is restarted I get > 2 cursors. I had to release the cursor from Vbox and take it > again (klick). > > ------ > > The Mouse focus is taken by vbox after the user release the > mouse button. So if I want to press a button I have to > perform 2 klicks. I think that they will be a way for resolving > this: Are you using the Guest Additions in this guest? Regards, Michael _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
