[SailfishDevel] Qt creator fails to connect to virtual machines

Peter Albrecht pa-dev at gmx.de
Wed Nov 1 17:36:05 UTC 2017


Hello list,

I wanted to work on SailfishOS applications, so I installed the "SailfishOS
Application SDK" on my linux desktop.
Everything went fine, but when I wanted to start "Sailfish OS Build Engine" or
"Sailfish OS Emulator" from within Qt Creator, the "General Messages"-Tab of Qt
Creator tells me:

* Error connecting to "Sailfish OS Build Engine" virtual machine: Failed to
  start virtual machine "Sailfish OS Build Engine"
* Error connecting to "Sailfish OS Emulator" virtual machine: Failed to start
  virtual machine "Sailfish OS Emulator"

In file "~/.xsession-errors" I can read:

* MerConnection: "Failed to start virtual machine \"Sailfish OS Build Engine\""
* MerConnection: "Failed to start virtual machine \"Sailfish OS Emulator\""

But nothing more about the Application SDK.


The virtual machines seem to start up:
VirtualBox is telling me that they are running.
The emulator is showing me a SailfishOS GUI, which I can use by swiping like my
Jolla device. And to the Build Engine I can connect via ssh using:
> ssh -i /opt/sailfishos-sdk/vmshare/ssh/private_keys/engine/root -p 2222 root at localhost


Do you have any ideas, what might be the problem? Or which log-files to check?


Versions in use:

 * SDK: SailfishOSSDK-Beta-1709-Qt5-linux-64-offline.run
 * Debian Linux 8 Jessie
 * VirtualBox 4.3.36

Regards,
	Peter


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