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On Thursday 08 Dec 2016 17:35:59 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 08/12/2016 14:36, Bertram Scharpf wrote: |
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> > On Thursday, 08. Dec 2016, 00:21:17 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> >> On 08/12/2016 00:01, Bertram Scharpf wrote: |
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> >>> arrgh! I just want to find a quick-start tutorial for |
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> >>> Virtualbox on Gentoo, but Google shows up loads of tutorials |
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> >>> for Gentoo in a Virtualbox. |
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> >> |
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> >> I have vbox on Gentoo here (many others do too) and it was |
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> >> a very smooth start - basically emerge virtualbox, the |
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> >> fancy oracle additions and modules, and I was off like a |
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> >> rocket. [...] The oracle docs are very good and quite |
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> >> complete |
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> >> |
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> >> Do you have specific questions that you want a tutorial to |
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> >> answer? |
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> > |
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> > The official documentation |
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> > <https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#idm267>> |
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> > says: |
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> > On a Linux or Solaris host, depending on your desktop |
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> > environment, a "VirtualBox" item may have been placed in |
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> > either the "System" or "System Tools" group of your |
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> > "Applications" menu. Alternatively, you can type |
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> > "VirtualBox" in a terminal. |
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> There is a command "VirtualBox" but it's not in your PATH: |
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> /usr/lib64/virtualbox/VirtualBox |
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> It's launched by the menu item |
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> |
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> > There is no command "VirtualBox" but only some commands |
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> > named VBox* like "VBoxManage" that are symlinks to |
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> > /usr/lib64/virtualbox/VBox. The command "VBoxManage" prints |
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> > |
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> > out >10 pages of documentation: |
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> > # VBoxManage | wc -l |
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> > 590 |
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> > |
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> > No window shows up as promised. |
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> |
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> VBoxManage is a CLI app, there won't be a window. It has a very long |
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> list of syntaxes for every possible action it can do with a VM. 590 |
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> lines is about right, and the command is fully explained in the |
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> virtualbox docs |
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> > There is no man page. |
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> > |
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> > Is there a _short_ documentation for which command to give |
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> > with wich parameters? |
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> not really. |
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> > Bertram |
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This is how I start my vbox guests: |
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VBoxHeadless --startvm "Mint-18.1-Cinnamon" --vrde on |
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I use the above syntax because I thereafter access the desktop remotely via |
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xfree. If you run whichever VBox* command with --help, you'll get some |
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guidance for options you can use with it. For more detailed information you |
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can scan/search through the online help in the URL mentioned above. |
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HTH. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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