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beadon created ticket #57
Update port to brew ?
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yes, I am seeing this too. For someone who might have typed the wrong credentials, or is getting some type of failure I would expect a "try 3x" type of error, but instead I see traffic where the client attempts repeatedly to connect. (infinitely?).
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Ubuntu 24.04 support Client / Server
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drwsrwx created ticket #55
Cannot cancel a connection attempt
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Option to mute VBox/VNC Ext Pack message on every connection
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Harvey created ticket #53
Remotebox segfaults on Gnome 44.1
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Richard George posted a comment on discussion RemoteBox Discussion
I've been having the same problem with a new server build (Ubuntu 22.04). Turns out the fix is to issue service vboxweb-service restart once the server is up and running. For some reason it won't listen on the port until it's restarted.
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RemoteBox released /Current RemoteBox Release/RemoteBox-3.2.tar.bz2
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JAMES W KRYCH posted a comment on discussion RemoteBox Discussion
Hello, Everything seems good except trying to add an iso image. I click add and no other menu option shows. This is the error I am getting: unhandled exception in callback: Can’t locate object method “format_secondary_markup” via package “Gtk3::MessageDialog” at /home/centurion030/RemoteBox-3.1/share/remotebox/rbox_err.pl line 143. I am using version 3.1 Very respectfully, James
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Ian Chapman modified ticket #52
Tarball Install dependencies to run RemoteBox from Ubuntu 21.10 don't work
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Works for me. I'm assuming you don't have standard repos enabled or and outdated cache.
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Works for me. I'm assuming you don't have standard repos enabled or and outdated cache.
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Anonymous created ticket #52
Tarball Install dependencies to run RemoteBox from Ubuntu 21.10 don't work
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gtk_buildable_get_name: assertion 'GTK_IS_BUILDABLE (buildable)' failed
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remotebox3.1
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Not a bug. You don't have your X display setup configured correctly.
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Not a bug. You don't have your X display setup configured correctly.
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Anonymous created ticket #51
remotebox3.1
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sai-mike created ticket #50
Groups not sorted alphabetically
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See the attached screenshot - those two buttons control whether groups are shown as expanded or minimised by default. The last button used, sets that preference. Unfortunately there's no way currently to have it remember on a "per group" basis, so when the list refreshes it'll default to all expanded or all minimised. I concede that it's not great from a UI perspective With regards to the order of the groups, I thought they were in alphabetical order so if they aren't, I'd consider it a bug, so feel...
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That's good to hear, a work around at least
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Is there a way to sort guest groups within RemoteBox? I have the RemoteBox preference turned on to sort the guest list alphabetically and that works fine within the group but doesn't appear to change the sort order of the groups themselves. Also, when I stop a VM in a group the group collapses. If I want to export the VM or change a setting, I have to expand the group again and re-select the VM.
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I setup a Debian Bullseye VM with Xfce on the VirtualBox server and it is working fine running RemoteBox. I am connecting to the RemoteBox VM using VNC.
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All good - you got it working that's the main thing
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RemoteBox certainly does work on a Raspberry Pi 4 providing you're running some kind of Linux distro on it.
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Michael Cooper modified a comment on discussion RemoteBox Discussion
Hey everyone, Does this work on a Raspberry Pi 4? I am sure it doesn't, but I had to ask. I have a Raspberry Pi 4 that I use as a workstation occasionally, I was just curious. Thanks Everyone, Michael
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Hey everyone, Does this work on a Raspberry Pi 4? I am sure it doesn't, but I had to ask. I have a Raspberry Pi 4 that I use as a workstation occasionally, I was just curious. Thanks Everyone, Michael
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Hey everyone, I am sure it doesn't, but I had to ask. I have a Raspberry Pi 4 that I use as a workstation occasionally, I was just curious. Thanks Everyone, Michael
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I got it working my bad I forgot to remove this.
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You haven't installed xfreerdp which is one of the requirements stated in the docs. What distribution are you using, from the screenshot it suggests Ubuntu based in some way? xfreerdp needs to be installed on the same system that RemoteBox is installed on. Try: sudo apt-get install libgtk3-perl libsoap-lite-perl freerdp2-x11 tigervnc-viewer Then relaunch RemoteBox There's also a newer version of RemoteBox available than 2.7
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Interesting issue there Kevin. Tanks for pointing that out. Seems like a compatibility issue with the Xserver in MobaXterm. Please let me know if you find it gets fixed in MobaXterm. I'll add a note to the FAQ about it. I'll leave the "bug" here for the moment
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You haven't installed xfreerdp which is one of the requirements stated in the docs. What distribution are you using?
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Michael Cooper modified a comment on discussion RemoteBox Discussion
Hey guys I have the Virtulbox headless server installed and working. However when I connect with Remote box. I get the error in the attachment. How do I get the Guest Display (RDP) Working so I can install/configure my guests On the server side I am seeing xfreerdp not found (Where is this supposed to be installed?) There is nothing in the instructions on where xfreerdp is supposed to be installed. Thanks guys, Michael
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Hey guys I have the Virtulbox headless server installed and working. However when I connect with Remote box. I get the error in the attachment. How do I get the Guest Display (RDP) Working so I can install/configure my guests Thanks guys, Michael
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Hey guys I have the Virtulbox headless server installed and working. However when I connect with Remote box. I get the error in the attachment. Thanks guys, Michael
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Hey guys I have the Virtulbox headless server installed and working How ever when I connect with Remote box. I get the error in the attachment. Thanks guys, Michael
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Kevin Shumaker posted a comment on ticket #49
Hmmm... Continuing to play with it. Additional info: Running WSL, Ubuntu 20.04 environment Running MobaXTerm Running Ubuntu 20.04 in MobaXTerm Found a 'bug' with one of the WSL, Ubuntu 20.04, MobaXTerm, or (now, doubtful) remotebox. While doing additional testing, waiting to see if anyone had ideas, I had MobaXTerm in full screen for another app I was testing, not connected with VBox or remotebox. I took it off of full screen, moved the window, did not put it back to full screen, and attempted to...
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Anonymous created ticket #49
gtk_buildable_get_name: assertion 'GTK_IS_BUILDABLE (buildable)' failed
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I wouldn't say it's excessive in itself, I have around 50 guests but then between my desktop and my server it's a 10Gbit link, so latency isn't an issue. It boils down to, the more guests you have, the more API calls RemoteBox has to make to grab the list of guests. Those calls occur synchronously and in serial so on a high latency link or a link with some packet loss, performance just sucks. There's 100% no problem running RemoteBox within a VM, even under the VirtualBox instance you're connecting...
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I have 4 Groups of VirtualBox VMs on the Server: Group 1 - 9 VMs - 1 Active Group 2 - 12 VMs - 12 Active Group 3 - 3 VMs - 0 Active Group 4 - 3 VMs - 3 Active Does this look excessive? If so, I could run RemoteBox on a Debian Virtual Machine on the headless server - if that will not cause additional problems? -- On 2022-05-06 10:11 pm, Ian Chapman wrote: Do you have a lot of guests? Although I'd expect it to be quicker than 7 minutes, RemoteBox will not perform well over high latency connections...
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Do you have a lot of guests? Although I'd expect it to be quicker than 7 minutes (depends on how many guests you have really), RemoteBox will not perform well over high latency connections and particularly if there's any kind of packet loss.
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Do you have a lot of guests? Although I'd expect it to be quicker than 7 minutes, RemoteBox will not perform well over high latency connections
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I have a notebook running Debian 10 so I tried to install RemoteBox on that this morning. I went to the message log tab and saved the log to get a time stamp and then immediately attempted to connect. In the attached screenshot, you can see it took over a minutes to connect. I gave it about 7 more minutes and it never got past retrieving the guest list and then I killed it. I am running over a high latency connection (ViaSat) and a VPN. I do use the same connection frequently for remote SSH & RDP...
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What does the message log in RemoteBox say? What user are you running the web service as? What user are logging in with?
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I have been running phpVirtualBox for several years and I am looking at moving to RemoteBox. My headless Debian Stretch server is running VirtualBox web service 6.1.10 r138449. When I connect using RemoteBox from a Debian Stretch desktop, I just get a spinning cursor. No guest list or other server information. I have to force quit RemoteBox to close it. Nothing of value is logged in the terminal window used to start RemoteBox (just several Gtk error messages prior to connection). Here is what is...
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Charles Omer posted a comment on ticket #48
Yeah, hopefully it can work on 20.04 too :) Although 22.04 will be released soon for WSL I'm guessing so it won't be too long before it's fixed that way In VirtualBox though you can specify port forwarding from within the VM setting itself, I'm guessing this is just doing the same thing under the hood as a NAT network. Although it does mean you don't have to worry about the IP addresses of the host/guest and it "just works" :)
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Glad it's working now at least. Creating a NAT Network is simply how VirtualBox works. It lets you create multiple NAT networks for any number of VMs and so RemoteBox essentially has to follow that design.
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Hi Charles. Ok those messages are benign and can be ignored. I'll see if I can replicate under 20.04
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It seems this is an issue with WSL Ubuntu 20.04 since it works with 21.10. Although would it be possible to be able to include port forwarding for just a "NAT" configuration rather than having to create a new "NAT Network"?
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It seems this is an issue with WSL Ubuntu 20.04 since it works with 20.10. Although would it be possible to be able to include port forwarding for just a "NAT" configuration rather than having to create a new "NAT Network"?
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Too late to run INIT block at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.30/Glib/Object/Introspection.pm line 257. GLib-LOG **: posix_spawn avoided (fd close requested) at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.30/Glib/Object/Introspection.pm line 67. GLib-GObject-WARNING **: value "((GtkIconSize) 32)" of type 'GtkIconSize' is invalid or out of range for property 'icon-size' of type 'GtkIconSize' at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.30/Glib/Object/Introspection.pm line 67. GLib-GObject-WARNING **: value "((GtkIconSize)...
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Thanks Charles. Does there happen to be any output on the command line behind where you've launched RemoteBox? That might be be able to give me some indication. What are the symptoms you're seeing when it's not OK is the GUI hanging or something else? Thanks
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Thanks Charles. Does there happen to be any output on the command line behind where you've launched RemoteBox? That might be be able to give me some indication. Thanks.
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IPv4 port forwarding GUI not responding
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If you're not launching it from MobaXTerm, it will not work unless you have a separate X server installed and running. If you are launching from MobaXterm, ensure it's internal X server is running and you have firewalled off the open ports.
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UI hangs
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Mani posted a comment on ticket #44
Hi, Didn't check 2.8 but seems to be working fine in version 3. Thank you, Mani Sabri On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 5:07 AM Ian Chapman ianchapman@users.sourceforge.net wrote: A late reply, but can you try with RemoteBox 2.8? [tickets:#44] https://sourceforge.net/p/remotebox/tickets/44/ UI hangs* Status: open Version: 2.7 Created: Sun Feb 21, 2021 10:09 AM UTC by Mani Last Updated: Mon Mar 01, 2021 02:26 PM UTC Owner: nobody Hi UI hangs in a loop printing the last errors you see below forever when a context...
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A late reply, but can you try with RemoteBox 2.8?
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Perl dependency repository down
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Future versions will require Gtk3. This is not a bug of RemoteBox so please post in the discussion forum
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Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
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This is not a bug, but your configuration of WSL. Please post in the discussion forum
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no more libgtk2-perl in debian bullseye... libgtk3-perl ?
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RemoteBox has been ported to Gtk3 and will likely be available in the next major release (probably 3.0)
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My internal version of RemoteBox has been ported to Gtk3 and is undergoing testing. The next major release will require perl-Gtk3 with the Gtk2 version being deprecated.
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Unfortunately I don't have a work around at this point in time, but someone else might. Debian are doing their best to remove most of the GTK2 stack entirely which is only going to make it harder to retro-fit. I'm considering options because continuing to use GTK2 is only going to get harder, unfortunately switching to GTK3 isn't going to be trivial and it's definitely a case of work versus reward. The other interim solution I'm considering is maybe a flatpack or something like that.
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Anonymous created ticket #47
no more libgtk2-perl in debian bullseye... libgtk3-perl ?
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Anonymous created ticket #46
Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
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VBox version is 6.1.16_Ubuntu r140961 and the host is Ubuntu 20.04.2 Server RemoteBox is running on Ubuntu 20.04.2 Desktop
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No worries, I just can't repeat the issue you're having as it's working perfectly fine for me. A couple of questions though to rule some things out. What version of VirtualBox are you using with RemoteBox and what OS is VirtualBox running on? Are you running RemoteBox on Ubuntu? If so, which desktop environment are you using?
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ok here is more info. It happens when I right click on a machine and hover over change optical disk, not a big deal, just thought to report the bug because the system cpu usage goes up to 100% and I have to kill RemoteBox On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 2:16 AM Ian Chapman ianchapman@users.sourceforge.net wrote: There's not really enough information on what was done there, but it looks to me like stale data. I'm suspecting something was changed on the VM without RemoteBox being refreshed for example. [tickets:#44]...
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Invalid managed object reference
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No response
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2.7 no virtual machines shown.
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No response
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You will need to use the 'WSL' method on Windows in that case. Links to video files showing how to do it are available here https://remotebox.knobgoblin.org.uk/?page=installwindows
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There's not really enough information on what was done there, but it looks to me like stale data. I'm suspecting something was changed on the VM without RemoteBox being refreshed for example.
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Anonymous created ticket #45
Perl dependency repository down
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UI hangs
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Harold Roberts posted a comment on discussion RemoteBox Discussion
OK a little more information. I needed to create the home folder using the "sudo mkhomedir_helper virtual" command, and then "sudo usermod -s /bin/bash" command. Now if I log in as that user the command above runs and stays running and I am able to connect via remote box. But stopping and restarting the service does not stay running. also even though virtual is the owner of the vboxwebservice.log file it is still empty.
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OK so running this above command as myself. works. and I am able to atleast try to authenticate. it tells me i have the wrong password, but i can su as that user and password. But when I do su as that user, and try to run it, I get an error message that says failed to initialize com! hrc=NS_ERROR_FAILURE
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I'd suggest running it manually on the server as the user you intend to run it as like this: vboxwebsrv -t -H 192.168.2.187 It should output any errors. If it doesn't connect to it. Are you using VirtualBox directly from VirtualBox or your disto's packages?
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Yes that is my concern as well is the fact it says active exited. The /var/log/vboxwebservice.log file is 0 bytes. I even chmod to 777 just to see if that changed anything. I made root owner. I made myself owner. I made my user virtual owner. and it never gets any data in the file. I am not sure where to even start at this point. I can't figure out why vboxwebservice will not stay running. Tonight I went so far as to purge the install, and reinstalled (BTW, both installs were done with 6.1.14) this...
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I also meant to add, that I'm pretty sure when you do systemctl status is should be report as active running, NOT active exited. This tells me your vboxweb service is quitting. Look at your /var/log/vboxwebservice.log file to see any error. If it's empty or doesn't exist then your web service doesn't have permissions to write to it. This will also cause it to fail.
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Jakob Czapski posted a comment on discussion RemoteBox Discussion
Hi thx for your fast reply! I tried: ./remotebox Can't locate Gtk2.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Gtk2 module) (@INC contains: /home/hal9000/RemoteBox-2.7/share/remotebox /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.30.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.30.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.30 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.30 /usr/share/perl/5.30 /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base) at /home/hal9000/RemoteBox-2.7/share/remotebox/rbox_gui_init.pl line...
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It tentatively looks fine, but on the windows box can you install telnet (if not already installed). It's part of the Windows Features options. With telnet, do the following: telnet 192.1682.187 18083 This should verify network connectivity at least. On the linux box I'd check that the weboxwebsrv process is actually running with ps -aef also
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I am running 20.04.1 with a kernel version of 5.4.0-48-generic I am running Remotebox on Windows 10 using strawberry perl. I am getting this error message when I try to connect to the server: (rboximage1.png attachment) My /etc/default/virtualbox config is this: (rboximage2.png attachment) And when I run the systemctl status virtualbox-service command I see this: (rboximage3.png attachment) I am not running any firewalls that I am aware of on this bare install. Can anyone provide me where I can go...
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I am running 20.04.1 with a kernel version of 5.4.0-48-generic I am running Remotebox on Windows 10 using strawberry perl. I am getting this error message when I try to connect to the server: (rboximage1.png attachment) My /etc/default/virtualbox config is this: (rboximage2.png attachment) And when I run the systemctl status virtualbox-service command I see this: (rboximage3.png attachment) I am not running any firewalls that I am aware of on this bare install. Can anyone provide me where I can go...
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You're right it would, but there hasn't been much call for it, essentially myself being the only person that's written any of the code. I'm more than happy to consider contributions from others though. Probably as a unified diff against an official release at this stage, unless there was a sudden rush of active contributors
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Gobudgie posted a comment on discussion RemoteBox Discussion
Thank you. Is there any upstream using a version control system like subversion, mercury or git available? That would realy simplify contributions.
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Fixed now. Version 2.7 has also been placed on SourceForge. Thanks for letting me know.
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