Re: [vbox-dev] Location of VirtualBox configuration file

2016-10-28 Thread Maxime Dor
Which VirtualBox version are you using? On 28/10/16 16:45, Malcolm Clarke wrote: Dear Maxine Regrettably I am not responsible for the configuration of our lab machines, this is done centrally by the University. I am just poor professor made to find workarounds for my labs. In time we shall

Re: [vbox-dev] Location of VirtualBox configuration file

2016-10-28 Thread Malcolm Clarke
Dear Maxine Regrettably I am not responsible for the configuration of our lab machines, this is done centrally by the University. I am just poor professor made to find workarounds for my labs. In time we shall use VBOX_USER_HOME, which ought to provide a proper fix as this can point at the hom

Re: [vbox-dev] Location of VirtualBox configuration file

2016-10-28 Thread Maxime Dor
I think the web documentation needs clarification on this matter, it is missleading I think (but the devs will confirm the actual behaviour). Here, this is purely a matter of proprer configuration in terms of Windows and user profile/env. I'm surprised you don't have issues with other software d

Re: [vbox-dev] Location of VirtualBox configuration file

2016-10-28 Thread Malcolm Clarke
Dear Maxine It seems the web documentation is not keeping up with changes to the software? Ideas why the global configuration is not being picked up? Could it be using HOMEDRIVE HOMEPATH in one place and USERPROFILE elsewhere? Regards Malcolm On 28/10/2016 15:13, Maxime Dor wrote: I believe t

Re: [vbox-dev] Location of VirtualBox configuration file

2016-10-28 Thread Malcolm Clarke
We continue to have problems with this location issue. In our labs the students have a profile script that set HOMEDRIVE to h: and HOMEPATH to \. I am expecting directories to be created and files stored in the locations H:\. This is not the case. Instead directories are created and files stor