I got the "Error: VBox base path contains invalid characters!" message which apparently was erroneously triggered by hyphens in the path.
According grep(1) Finally, to include a literal - place it last. but the hyphen in the grep expression is not last in the configure script of virtualbox. The following patch fixes the problem: --- configure 2007-01-21 00:59:12.000000000 +0900 +++ configure 2007-01-21 00:47:00.000000000 +0900 @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ ENV="env.sh" BUILD_TYPE="release" ## todo: These are the chars that ar can deal with in mri mode: [A-Za-z0-9/\\$:.\-\_] -INVALID_CHARS="[^A-Za-z0-9/\\$:.\-_]" +INVALID_CHARS="[^A-Za-z0-9/\\$:._-]" if (cd $(dirname $0); pwd)|grep -q "$INVALID_CHARS"; then echo "Error: VBox base path contains invalid characters!" -- \ Georgi Georgiev \ Blossom: Here I am. Did I miss anything? \ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Oh, look! Bad guys! Stand back, girls! / _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
