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Issue: (seemingly)DesktopEnv/OSWorld Not Installed in VM → POST/setup/execute Fails #5

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Issue: (seemingly)DesktopEnv/OSWorld Not Installed in VM → POST/setup/execute Fails#5
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@Qifeng-Yuan
Qifeng-Yuan
opened on Dec 1, 2025

Hello developers,

I encountered a serious problem when running ScienceBoard locally with a VMware-based virtual machine.
Although the VM boots successfully and an IP address is assigned, DesktopEnv/OSWorld is not running inside the Ubuntu VM, which causes every VM task to fail at the step where ScienceBoard sends the internal POST request:

Error when requesting POST/setup/execute: ('Connection aborted.', RemoteDisconnected('Remote end closed connection without response'))

GPT suggests:

OSWorld/DesktopEnv inside the VM is not installed at all, so the REST API server (the one that should respond to /setup/execute) is not running.

I also confirmed inside the VM that:

The system boots into a normal Ubuntu desktop
Only basic programs exist
There is no OSWorld, no DesktopEnv, no sci_bench snapshot environment, etc.

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The VM workstation I used is this one got in the VM.zip from Hugging Face,

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And due to several problems like no IP address reported in Windows terminal, I adjust some setup in VMware Workstation. (I hope Chinese is ok for this part):

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If you could kindly offer some help, I will appreciate very much. I'm looking forward to your response.

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  1. Qifeng-Yuan commented on Dec 2, 2025

    @Qifeng-Yuan
    Qifeng-Yuan
    on Dec 2, 2025
    Author

    The Output is given by,

    [INFO] Using VM: D:\AI4science\VM\Ubuntu.vmx
[INFO] Using MODEL: DeepSeek-V3-685B
Starting VMware VM...
[2025-12-02 09:56:18,104 INFO  ID=GLOBAL provider::start_emulator@provider.py:49] (desktopenv.providers.vmware.VMwareProvider) Starting VMware VM...
[2025-12-02 09:56:18,834 INFO  ID=GLOBAL provider::start_emulator@provider.py:59] (desktopenv.providers.vmware.VMwareProvider) VM is running.
[2025-12-02 09:56:18,835 INFO  ID=GLOBAL provider::get_ip_address@provider.py:73] (desktopenv.providers.vmware.VMwareProvider) Getting VMware VM IP address...
[2025-12-02 09:56:19,685 INFO  ID=GLOBAL provider::get_ip_address@provider.py:80] (desktopenv.providers.vmware.VMwareProvider) VMware VM IP address: 192.168.75.129
[2025-12-02 09:56:19,689 INFO  ID=Celestia\A-01 task::__call__@task.py:400] Task: Set the Julian date to 2400000 in Celestia.
[2025-12-02 09:56:19,698 INFO  ID=Celestia\A-01 task::__call@task.py:375] Starting initialization.
[2025-12-02 09:56:19,698 INFO  ID=Celestia\A-01 vmanager::revert@vmanager.py:243] Revert to snapshot of sci_bench.
[2025-12-02 09:56:19,699 INFO  ID=Celestia\A-01 provider::revert_to_snapshot@provider.py:94] (desktopenv.providers.vmware.VMwareProvider) Reverting VMware VM to snapshot: sci_bench...
Starting VMware VM...
[2025-12-02 09:56:22,715 INFO  ID=Celestia\A-01 provider::start_emulator@provider.py:49] (desktopenv.providers.vmware.VMwareProvider) Starting VMware VM...
[2025-12-02 09:56:23,521 INFO  ID=Celestia\A-01 provider::start_emulator@provider.py:62] (desktopenv.providers.vmware.VMwareProvider) Starting VM...
[2025-12-02 09:56:27,260 INFO  ID=Celestia\A-01 provider::start_emulator@provider.py:59] (desktopenv.providers.vmware.VMwareProvider) VM is running.
[2025-12-02 09:56:27,261 INFO  ID=Celestia\A-01 provider::get_ip_address@provider.py:73] (desktopenv.providers.vmware.VMwareProvider) Getting VMware VM IP address...
[2025-12-02 09:57:13,846 INFO  ID=Celestia\A-01 provider::get_ip_address@provider.py:80] (desktopenv.providers.vmware.VMwareProvider) VMware VM IP address: 192.168.75.129
[2025-12-02 09:57:22,967 ERROR ID=Celestia\A-01 vtask::_request_wrapper@vtask.py:65] Error when requesting POST/setup/execute: ('Connection aborted.', RemoteDisconnected('Remote end closed connection without response'))
[2025-12-02 09:57:22,969 INFO  ID=Celestia\A-01 vmanager::revert@vmanager.py:243] Revert to snapshot of sci_bench.
[2025-12-02 09:57:22,970 INFO  ID=Celestia\A-01 provider::revert_to_snapshot@provider.py:94] (desktopenv.providers.vmware.VMwareProvider) Reverting VMware VM to snapshot: sci_bench...
Starting VMware VM...
[2025-12-02 09:57:25,981 INFO  ID=Celestia\A-01 provider::start_emulator@provider.py:49] (desktopenv.providers.vmware.VMwareProvider) Starting VMware VM...
[2025-12-02 09:57:26,713 INFO  ID=Celestia\A-01 provider::start_emulator@provider.py:62] (desktopenv.providers.vmware.VMwareProvider) Starting VM...
[2025-12-02 09:57:30,465 INFO  ID=Celestia\A-01 provider::start_emulator@provider.py:59] (desktopenv.providers.vmware.VMwareProvider) VM is running.
[2025-12-02 09:57:30,465 INFO  ID=Celestia\A-01 provider::get_ip_address@provider.py:73] (desktopenv.providers.vmware.VMwareProvider) Getting VMware VM IP address...
[2025-12-02 09:58:17,034 INFO  ID=Celestia\A-01 provider::get_ip_address@provider.py:80] (desktopenv.providers.vmware.VMwareProvider) VMware VM IP address: 192.168.75.129
[2025-12-02 09:58:26,101 ERROR ID=Celestia\A-01 vtask::_request_wrapper@vtask.py:65] Error when requesting POST/setup/execute: ('Connection aborted.', RemoteDisconnected('Remote end closed connection without response'))
[2025-12-02 09:58:26,104 INFO  ID=Celestia\A-01 vmanager::revert@vmanager.py:243] Revert to snapshot of sci_bench.
[2025-12-02 09:58:26,108 INFO  ID=Celestia\A-01 provider::revert_to_snapshot@provider.py:94] (desktopenv.providers.vmware.VMwareProvider) Reverting VMware VM to snapshot: sci_bench...
Starting VMware VM...
[2025-12-02 09:58:29,125 INFO  ID=Celestia\A-01 provider::start_emulator@provider.py:49] (desktopenv.providers.vmware.VMwareProvider) Starting VMware VM...
[2025-12-02 09:58:29,866 INFO  ID=Celestia\A-01 provider::start_emulator@provider.py:62] (desktopenv.providers.vmware.VMwareProvider) Starting VM...
[2025-12-02 09:58:34,003 INFO  ID=Celestia\A-01 provider::start_emulator@provider.py:59] (desktopenv.providers.vmware.VMwareProvider) VM is running.
[2025-12-02 09:58:34,004 INFO  ID=Celestia\A-01 provider::get_ip_address@provider.py:73] (desktopenv.providers.vmware.VMwareProvider) Getting VMware VM IP address...
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    ShiinaHiiragi
    on Dec 4, 2025

  3. ShiinaHiiragi commented on Dec 5, 2025

    @ShiinaHiiragi
    ShiinaHiiragi
    on Dec 5, 2025
    Collaborator

    Hello, thanks for your attention to our project.

    Generally OSWorld/DesktopEnv are not required inside the VM, while we apply osworld.service instead to response to requests from ScienceBoard.

    You can check the status of osworld.service via systemctl --user status osworld to verify if it runs normally. And you can resolve the problem quickly by restarting the service and saving a snapshot to replace the old one manually without causing any side effects.

  4. Qifeng-Yuan commented on Dec 8, 2025

    @Qifeng-Yuan
    Qifeng-Yuan
    on Dec 8, 2025
    Author

    Thank you for your response!

    However, the problem maintains as even if the osworld.service seems running, it still reports

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    Would you please offer a more detailed guidance on solutions?

    Thank you very much.

  5. ShiinaHiiragi
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  7. ShiinaHiiragi commented on Dec 8, 2025

    @ShiinaHiiragi
    ShiinaHiiragi
    on Dec 8, 2025
    Collaborator

    Since I have never encountered such a problem before, what I can guess is that there might be some issues with your local network settings which prevent you from visiting VM.

    Maybe you can try to access http://127.0.0.1:5000/screenshot inside your VM, or make a request to GET screenshot via http://{vm_ip}:5000/screenshot to check if there are any problems existed.

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