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| 4 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="startingvboxonlinux">
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| 5 | <title>Starting Oracle VM VirtualBox on Linux</title>
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <body>
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| 8 | <p>
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| 9 | The easiest way to start an Oracle VM VirtualBox program is by running
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| 10 | the program of your choice (<userinput>VirtualBox</userinput>,
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| 11 | <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput>, or
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| 12 | <userinput>VBoxHeadless</userinput>) from a terminal. These are
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| 13 | symbolic links to <userinput>VBox.sh</userinput> that start the
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| 14 | required program for you.
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| 15 | </p>
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| 16 | <p>
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| 17 | The following detailed instructions should only be of interest
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| 18 | if you wish to execute Oracle VM VirtualBox without installing it
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| 19 | first. You should start by compiling the
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| 20 | <userinput>vboxdrv</userinput> kernel module and inserting it into
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| 21 | the Linux kernel. Oracle VM VirtualBox consists of a service daemon,
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| 22 | <userinput>VBoxSVC</userinput>, and several application programs.
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| 23 | The daemon is automatically started if necessary. All
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| 24 | Oracle VM VirtualBox applications will communicate with the daemon
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| 25 | through UNIX local domain sockets. There can be multiple daemon
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| 26 | instances under different user accounts and applications can
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| 27 | only communicate with the daemon running under the user account
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| 28 | as the application. The local domain socket resides in a
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| 29 | subdirectory of your system's directory for temporary files
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| 30 | called <filepath>.vbox-<username>-ipc</filepath>. In case
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| 31 | of communication problems or server startup problems, you may
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| 32 | try to remove this directory.
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| 33 | </p>
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| 34 | <p>
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| 35 | All Oracle VM VirtualBox applications (<userinput>VirtualBox</userinput>,
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| 36 | <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput>, and
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| 37 | <userinput>VBoxHeadless</userinput>) require the Oracle VM VirtualBox
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| 38 | directory to be in the library path, as follows:
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| 39 | </p>
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| 40 | <pre xml:space="preserve">LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./VBoxManage showvminfo "Windows XP"</pre>
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| 41 | </body>
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| 43 | </topic>
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