When starting a VirtualBox domain, we try to guess which frontend to use. While the whole algorithm looks a bit outdated, it may happen that we tell VirtualBox to use "gui" frontend, but not which DISPLAY= to use. I haven't found any documentation on the algorithm we use, but if I make us fallback onto DISPLAY=:0 when no other configuration is found then I'm able to start my guests just fine. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/vbox/vbox_common.c | 13 ++++++------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/vbox/vbox_common.c b/src/vbox/vbox_common.c index bd77641d39..5269f9b23f 100644 --- a/src/vbox/vbox_common.c +++ b/src/vbox/vbox_common.c @@ -2121,13 +2121,12 @@ vboxStartMachine(virDomainPtr dom, int maxDomID, IMachine *machine, vboxIID *iid VBOX_UTF8_FREE(valueDisplayUtf8); if (guiPresent) { - if (guiDisplay) { - char *displayutf8; - displayutf8 = g_strdup_printf("DISPLAY=%s", guiDisplay); - VBOX_UTF8_TO_UTF16(displayutf8, &env); - VIR_FREE(displayutf8); - VIR_FREE(guiDisplay); - } + char *displayutf8; + + displayutf8 = g_strdup_printf("DISPLAY=%s", guiDisplay ? guiDisplay : ":0"); + VBOX_UTF8_TO_UTF16(displayutf8, &env); + VIR_FREE(displayutf8); + VIR_FREE(guiDisplay); VBOX_UTF8_TO_UTF16("gui", &sessionType); } -- 2.39.1