VBoxmanage not working in Virtualbox jail

[JCBone]

Hello!

I have installed a virtualbox jail using the included Template. Since i have to configure the installation somewhat, I have to use VBoxManage inside the jail. Sadly, it doesn't work - VBoxManage can't list the installed VMs. And - if, for example, I try to start a VM called "AppServer" by using

# VBoxManage startvm AppServer

I get this error:

VBoxManage: error: Could not find a registered machine named 'AppServer'

VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80bb0001), component VirtualBox, interface IVirtualBox, callee nsISupports

VBoxManage: error: Context: "FindMachine(Bstr(pszVM).raw(), machine.asOutParam())" at line 575 of file VBoxManageMisc.cpp

I CAN start the VMs via the web interface, but there is no way to configure them like i need to.

I'm posting this here because I'm using the template provided by Freenas 9.2.1.7

Thanks for your help,
Jörg

 

[dlavigne]

Does running registervm fix it?

 

[JCBone]

Ah, thanks! It registered the machine and I can modify the CPU settings now. But the VM doesn't start for some other reason, which I have yet to find out.