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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo AMD64 <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] VirtualBox: invisible executable
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 15:58:14
Message-Id: CAK2H+ed7H1m+-J6_3=nDUaodwY=eVKz1NcN7ePa5judiWXYuYg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] VirtualBox: invisible executable by Mark Knecht
1 On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Tamas Karpati <tkarpati@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> Hi,
4 >> Sorry for a stupid question: VirtualBox installed faillessly, however,
5 >> couldn't find an appropriate executable to ignite it. Only I found
6 >> VBoxHeadless, VBoxSDL, VBoxVRDP, VBoxManage and
7 >> VBoxTunctl in /usr/bin ... no virtualbox or anything else I've seen
8 >> in wikis or at the home page. Checked /usr/lib64/virtualbox, too,
9 >> to no avail. The USE flag vboxwebsrv was off but the logs
10 >> mention an XPCOM server being present (after blind shooting at
11 >> various exes). OpenRC is aware of the modules, seen them via
12 >> lsmod after reboot. Stuck (ridicolous me today :(
13 >> Plz, ideas...
14 >>
15 >> Thanks in advance,
16 >> toma
17 >>
18 >
19 > /usr/bin/VirtualBox
20 >
21 > That should start up the GUI where you can do an install.
22 >
23 > HTH,
24 > Mark
25
26 In case it's a flags issue here's what I have installed:
27
28 c2RAID6 ~ # emerge -pv virtualbox virtualbox-additions
29 virtualbox-extpack-oracle virtualbox-modules
30
31 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
32
33 Calculating dependencies... done!
34 [ebuild R ~] app-emulation/virtualbox-additions-4.3.20 0 KiB
35 [ebuild R ~] app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.3.20
36 USE="-pax_kernel" 0 KiB
37 [ebuild R ~] app-emulation/virtualbox-4.3.20-r1 USE="additions
38 alsa java opengl pam qt4 sdk udev -doc -extensions -headless
39 -pulseaudio -python -vboxwebsrv -vnc" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" 0 KiB
40 [ebuild R ~] app-emulation/virtualbox-extpack-oracle-4.3.20.96996 0 KiB
41
42 Total: 4 packages (4 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 KiB
43 c2RAID6 ~ #

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] VirtualBox: invisible executable Tamas Karpati <tkarpati@×××××.com>