Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:36:33 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> To: Aiza <aiza21@comclark.com>, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: lists@lizardhill.com, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: VirtualBox from the command line Message-ID: <C9446572131EE69E102E2919@utd65257.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <4BA2F3AB.6030108@comclark.com> References: <4BA2C900.5010400@comclark.com> <6201873e1003181811s2e9a9f6fsf0a8181cce339cdc@mail.gmail.com> <4BA2F3AB.6030108@comclark.com>
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--On Friday, March 19, 2010 11:46:51 +0800 Aiza <aiza21@comclark.com> wrote: > > Why don't virtual box GUI start in vga mode? > VirtualBox is in ports and installs as an application like Firefox. Here's a screenshot of it running on my workstation: http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/VirtualBox_on_FreeBSD.png And here's a shot of the menu item in KDE4: http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/VirtualBox_menu_KDE4.png It's the second item from the top, because it's a recently used program. It also appears in the System menu on KDE4. However you create icons to launch programs in your window manager, that's how you would create one to start VirtualBox. It has to start as an X11 program, not a commandline (terminal) program. > Is this telling me that I have to have Xorg and some > desktop running before VirtualBox's gui will function? > Yes. VirtualBox is a GUI program designed to run alternative OSes inside the native OS. (There may be a commandline version that I'm not familiar with.) > Are the scripts provided by vboxtool the only way to have > command line control of VirtualBox? > http://vboxtool.sourceforge.net/ > > See talk about vboxweb as alternate VirtualBox manager. > http://vboxweb.blogspot.com/ > Does not look like this is out of development yet. > Anybody using this? > Well, clearly I'm using the GUI version. I also use it on Mac Snow Leopard. It beats the hell out of VMware or having to run Windows natively. -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. ******************************************* "It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead." Thomas Jefferson
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