Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox documentation

[BOFH]

On Thu 2016-12-08  01:36 PM, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> The official documentation <https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#idm267>
> says:
>
>   On a Linux or Solaris host, depending on your desktop
>   environment, a "VirtualBox" item may have been placed in
>   either the "System" or "System Tools" group of your
>   "Applications" menu. Alternatively, you can type
>   "VirtualBox" in a terminal.
>
> There is no command "VirtualBox" but only some commands
> named VBox* like "VBoxManage" that are symlinks to
> /usr/lib64/virtualbox/VBox. The command "VBoxManage" prints
> out >10 pages of documentation:
>
>   # VBoxManage | wc -l
>   590
>
> No window shows up as promised.
>
> There is no man page.
>
> Is there a _short_ documentation for which command to give
> with wich parameters?
>

Have you installed VirtualBox headless or something?

My system:

Installed versions:  4.3.38.106717^m(00:29:11 11/02/16)(additions chm
-debug -headless -python -rdesktop-vrdp -sdk -vboxwebsrv
PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7")

$ 'ls' -l /opt/bin
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Nov  2 00:29 VBoxHeadless ->
/opt/VirtualBox/VBox.sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Nov  2 00:29 VBoxManage ->
/opt/VirtualBox/VBox.sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Nov  2 00:29 VBoxSDL ->
/opt/VirtualBox/VBox.sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Nov  2 00:29 VBoxTunctl ->
/opt/VirtualBox/VBoxTunctl
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Nov  2 00:29 VBoxVRDP ->
/opt/VirtualBox/VBox.sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Nov  2 00:29 VirtualBox ->
/opt/VirtualBox/VBox.sh

For most operations I just need to run VirtualBox, having had /opt/bin
added to my $PATH automatically:

$ grep \ PATH= /etc/profile.env 
export
PATH='/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.9.3:/usr/games/bin'

--
Vitor