Not able to Show/control VMs after upgrading to virtualbox 7

[nanderer]

On my windows server 2019 i upgraded to Virtualbox Version 7.0.8 r156879 together with latest VBoxVmService version (is not shown in the log file unfortunately). I possible should have stayed back with good old version 6 because now i have the problem that i am unable to control the vm/show the vm window of vms startet through VBoxVmService and even with vms started with virtualbox manager.

I worked around the issue by stoping VBoxVmService and VirtualBox system service and then killing all remaining virtualbox processes, starting the virtualbox manager, starting one vm and after it is was running (this time with a window to control it) i started VBoxVmService again. Then i was again able to control even the vms managed by VBoxVmService using the Virtualbox Manager, but that kind of defies the purpose of VBoxVmService to have vms autostart even before signing in.

I hope my description of the issue is understandable otherwise please ask for more info, any idea what causes this behaviour and how to fix it?

Thanks a lot in advance,

nandaerer

[JohnnyPicnic]

Same here. Using 7.06. Also tried 7.08.

[iperrealistico]

I think this needs to be updated

[pchenriques]

Same issue with VirtualBox 7.0.12.

[38Cherry]

same. Tray shows a pause symbol and start option when VM is running. Can not stop the vm unless use CLI command.

[pedrospinto]

I had the same issue. Turns out I had deleted a VM in virtualbox, but forgot to remove it from the VBoxVmService.ini config file.
Once I did so, I got back control over the VMs in the tray icon list.

[GCustom]

I had the same issue. Turns out I had deleted a VM in virtualbox, but forgot to remove it from the VBoxVmService.ini config file. Once I did so, I got back control over the VMs in the tray icon list.

This was my problem, I changed out the first entry but left the 2nd from the default file, tons of errors that didn't indicate missing VM but after reading your comment I deleted the extra and the service fired right up.