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