On Thursday 08 Dec 2016 17:35:59 Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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
This is how I start my vbox guests: VBoxHeadless --startvm "Mint-18.1-Cinnamon" --vrde on I use the above syntax because I thereafter access the desktop remotely via xfree. If you run whichever VBox* command with --help, you'll get some guidance for options you can use with it. For more detailed information you can scan/search through the online help in the URL mentioned above. HTH. -- Regards, Mick
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