maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 212074] emulators/virtualbox-ose starting virtual machines with vboxheadless returns 'already running?'

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Jan Jurkus <ict at gcecad-service.nl> has reassigned Bugzilla Automation
<bugzilla at FreeBSD.org>'s request for maintainer-feedback to vbox at FreeBSD.org:
Bug 212074: emulators/virtualbox-ose starting virtual machines with
vboxheadless returns 'already running?'
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212074



--- Description ---
When I start vboxheadless like this, it gives an error:

# service vboxheadless start vmname
vboxheadless already running?  (pid=738 756 770 784 798 812 826 840 854 868 882
896 910 924 938 952 966 980 994 1008 1022 1036 1050 1064 1078).

The listed pids are from the VBoxHeadless instances that are already running.
These were started on boot, via rc.conf
In rc.conf they are listed like this:
vboxheadless_machines="vmname2 vmname3 vmname4 vmname-etc"

If I use /usr/bin/install and /usr/sbin/daemon to create a pid and to start
VBoxHeadless the vm starts up like it should.

The virtual machine I am trying to start is not listed in
vboxheadless_machines, and does not get started at boot. It works the same for
other virtual machines that are not started on boot.