Vboxmanage Metrics No Longer Works in 3.2.8 => Fixed in SVN

[Chris]

I recently upgraded to version 3.2.8 and not I can not do a generic vboxmanage metrics setup to start metrics on all running VMs or even setup a single VM metric. When querying I only get the overall "host" data and no session based data. When trying to setup a filter directly to a session (vobxmanage metrics setup -list "Win7B2") I get a "No metrics match the specified filter". I have also tried vboxmanage metrics setup "Win7B2" CPU/Load/User then using query but no metrics come up. Metrics is enabled, This worked fine on 3.1.4 which was what we ran perviously

[Frank Mehnert]

Thanks for the report! This is indeed a 3.2.8 regression which will be fixed with the next maintenance release.

[Klaus Espenlaub]

The workaround is to start the VMs with VBoxManage startvm (maybe with an appropriate --type parameter).

Note that this way is the recommended one for some time, as with recent versions you don't lose diagnostics information in case the VM didn't start. The manual has been updated.