Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On May 4, 2009, at 19:18, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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You need to do one of 2 things:
1. cd \Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox
and then run vboxmanage, or:
Gulp. Does Windows put current working directory in
the executable search path? At which end? Conventional
UNIX wisdom is that this is a risky thing to do. Can
it be removed?
Windows effectively puts the pwd on the start of PATH. You can't remove
it. And conventional wisdom of any sort never figured very highly in
the design of Windows (or DOS, as this comes all the way from MS-DOS 1.0).
2. Add C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox to your path. If you need
directions on how to do this, let me know. Keep in mind though that
autoexec.bat is not the correct place to do this in xp.
Directions, please. Or a pointer to The Friendly Manual.
Control Panel, System, "Advanced" tab, "Environment Variables" button.
You can modify the system path (if you have administrator privileges) or
the user path, which is added to the system path (I can't remember the
order).
What's a "BAT file"? (Actually, I wrote one once. The
objective was to automatically open a browser when a
CD was inserted, showing a page which happened to have
a blank in its filename. I wound up with an autorun.inf
file invoking an autorun.bat file opening the .html file,
and a strong feeling that this was too complicated.)
A "bat" file is a windows shell script. Think of the ".bat" on the file
name meaning the same thing as a "#!/bin/sh" and a "chmod o+x" on the
file, except that the windows shell has nowhere near the power of bash.
Thanks,
gil
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