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
