[mdlug] VirtualBox under CentOS

[Michael ORourke]

Lug Nuts,

I ran into something strange with VirtualBox running on a Linux Host OS and 
thought I would see if anyone else has run into this issue.  This all 
started when I was trying to automate the startup/shutdown of VM's on the 
Linux Host OS.  I found some example scripts with Google, but I can't seem 
to get them to run reliably.  It seems if I startup a VM guest on the 
console, and try to run the scripts manually to shutdown the VM, it fails. 
Almost as if it did not even recognize that the VM guest was running.  And 
some commands such as "VBoxManage list runnningvms" shows no output, but I 
know the VM guest is actually running.  I can even see it in the process 
table.  I would have suspected that it was just a problem with the script, 
but the regular VirtualBox commands don't seem to be working either.  Also, 
if I do everything through the GUI, it seems to work fine.

-Mike