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