[libvirt] Building on Solaris 11 Express

[Matthias Bolte]

2011/6/4 Matthias Bolte <matthias.bolte at googlemail.com>:
> 2011/6/4 Richard Laager <rlaager at wiktel.com>:
>> On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 22:06 +0200, Ruben Kerkhof wrote:
>>> >> If I don't have the VirtualBox GUI running, virsh fails to connect:
>>> >>
>>> >> /usr/local/bin/virsh -c vbox:///session
>>> >> ... hangs for 10 or so seconds ...
>>> >> error: internal error nsIEventQueue object is null
>>> >> error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
>>> >
>>> > This is typically a sign of a COM object ID mismatch between
>>> > VirtualBox and libvirt. What versions of libvirt and VirtualBox are
>>> > you running? By any chance are you running a beta or release candidate
>>> > of VirtualBox?
>>>
>>> libvirt-0.9.2-rc2, and VirtualBox-4.0.8-SunOS-r71778.pkg from www.virtualbox.org
>>
>> I'm running libvirt-0.9.1 and the same VirtualBox
>> (VirtualBox-4.0.8-SunOS-r71778.pkg).
>>
>> Richard
>>
>
> Okay VirtualBox 4.0.8 work with libvirt on Windows too. So this seems
> to be a Solaris specific problem. Does an earlier version of
> VirtualBox work, for example 4.0.0 or 3.2.10, or did it never work?
>
> Matthias
>

I was just testing libvirt with different VirtualBox versions on
Windows and found a strange problem. After downgrading to VirtualBox
3.0.0 libvirt failed to connect with a strange error, about not being
able to create the main IVirtualBox COM object. Using the VirtualBox
GUI to create a dummy virtual machine fixed this, I've no clue why.

Is the VirtualBox setup on your Solaris machine a fresh one or does it
already have running virtual machines? Yes, this is a random guess
into the blue :)

Matthias