guestcontrol rmdir recursive is broken

[indifferent]

Trying to execute rmdir --recursive fail with following output:

> VBoxManage guestcontrol "$ARG_VM_NAME" removedir "/mnt/ramdisk/$BUILD" --recursive --username $VM_USER_LOGIN --password $VM_USER_PASSWORD --verbose
Opening guest session as user 'tester' ...
Waiting for guest session to start ...
Guest session (ID 1) has been started
Removing 1 directories ...
Recursively removing directory "/mnt/ramdisk/jdk8u20-b26-20141001-140539" ...
VBoxManage: error: VERR_DIR_NOT_EMPTY
VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80bb0005), component GuestSession, interface IGuestSession, callee nsISupports
VBoxManage: error: Context: "DirectoryRemoveRecursive(Bstr(it->first).raw(), ComSafeArrayAsInParam(aRemRecFlags), pProgress.asOutParam())" at line 2803 of file VBoxManageGuestCtrl.cpp
Closing guest session ...

Host: openSUSE 13.1 x86_64 Guest: RHEL 6.5 x86_64, also can be reproduced on other linux guests.

[pentagonik]

Thanks for the report; what was the last working VBox version for you in this regard?

[indifferent]

I cannot say, that was the first time I used the command and it failed. Using exec --image "/bin/sh" -- -c "cd /mnt/ramdisk && rm -rf '$BUILD'" as a workaround.

[aeichner]

Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.