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Enhancement: treat session lock error from VBoxManage as a signal that the VM is already running

Open ghost opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

This issue was originally opened by @mcandre as hashicorp/packer#9334. It was migrated here as a result of the Packer plugin split. The original body of the issue is below.


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Feature Description

Please treat session lock error from VBoxManage as a signal that the VM is already running. That could help packer integrate better with the hypervisor and assess VM state more accurately.

ghost avatar Apr 16 '21 09:04 ghost