Opened 6 years ago
Closed 5 years ago
#18257 closed defect (fixed)
VirtualBoxVM not accessible on Linux hosts -> fixed after (not in) 6.0.0
| Reported by: | andyp1973 | Owned by: | pentagonik |
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| Component: | VM control | Version: | VirtualBox 6.0.0 |
| Keywords: | VirtualBoxVM, shortcut | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | Linux |
Description
When installing VirtualBox 6.0.0 onto a Linux host, the VirtualBoxVM application is not accessible with the standard Linux paths.
To resolve this issue a soft link should be created in /usr/bin:
ln -s VBox VirtualBoxVM
...and the following added to the case statement in /usr/bin/VBox...
VirtualBoxVM|virtualboxvm)
exec "$INSTALL_DIR/VirtualBoxVM" "$@"
;;
Change History (7)
comment:1 by , 6 years ago
comment:3 by , 6 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
comment:4 by , 6 years ago
| Summary: | VirtualBoxVM not accessible on Linux hosts → VirtualBoxVM not accessible on Linux hosts -> fixed after (not in) 6.0.0 |
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Fixed as of revision 128075 and later.
comment:5 by , 6 years ago
This appears to be fixed in changeset 76608. Should there be an additional change to the src/VBox/Installer/linux/uninstall.sh file to add /usr/bin/VirtualBoxVM to the list of symlinks to be deleted?
Likewise, are the same changes needed for the Solaris equivalents (src/VBox/Installer/solaris/VBox.sh)?
-Andy.
comment:6 by , 6 years ago
Thanks Andy, I have gone through our installers and fixed a few places where VirtualBoxVM was still missing. (src/VBox/Installer/solaris/VBox.sh was not actually one of them.)
comment:7 by , 5 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |


Discussion of this can be found in https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=90997