On 08/12/2016 14:36, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > On Thursday, 08. Dec 2016, 00:21:17 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 08/12/2016 00:01, Bertram Scharpf wrote: >>> arrgh! I just want to find a quick-start tutorial for >>> Virtualbox on Gentoo, but Google shows up loads of tutorials >>> for Gentoo in a Virtualbox. >> >> I have vbox on Gentoo here (many others do too) and it was >> a very smooth start - basically emerge virtualbox, the >> fancy oracle additions and modules, and I was off like a >> rocket. [...] The oracle docs are very good and quite >> complete >> >> Do you have specific questions that you want a tutorial to >> answer? > > 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 a command "VirtualBox" but it's not in your PATH: /usr/lib64/virtualbox/VirtualBox It's launched by the menu item > > 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. VBoxManage is a CLI app, there won't be a window. It has a very long list of syntaxes for every possible action it can do with a VM. 590 lines is about right, and the command is fully explained in the virtualbox docs > > There is no man page. > > Is there a _short_ documentation for which command to give > with wich parameters? not really. > > Bertram > > -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
