VirtualBox

Opened 5 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
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 andyp1973, 5 years ago

comment:2 by pentagonik, 5 years ago

This will be fixed in the next upcoming maintenance release.

comment:3 by pentagonik, 5 years ago

Owner: set to pentagonik
Status: newassigned

comment:4 by Michael Thayer, 5 years ago

Summary: VirtualBoxVM not accessible on Linux hostsVirtualBoxVM not accessible on Linux hosts -> fixed after (not in) 6.0.0

Fixed as of revision 128075 and later.

comment:5 by andyp1973, 5 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 Michael Thayer, 5 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 Michael Thayer, 5 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed
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