#!/bin/sh ## @file # Oracle VirtualBox startup script, Linux hosts. # # # Copyright (C) 2006-2023 Oracle and/or its affiliates. # # This file is part of VirtualBox base platform packages, as # available from https://www.virtualbox.org. # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License # as published by the Free Software Foundation, in version 3 of the # License. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, see . # # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only # PATH="/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin" # The below is GNU-specific. See slightly further down for a version which # works on Solaris and OS X. TARGET=`readlink -e -- "${0}"` || exit 1 MY_DIR="${TARGET%/[!/]*}" # ( # path="${0}" # while test -n "${path}"; do # # Make sure we have at least one slash and no leading dash. # expr "${path}" : / > /dev/null || path="./${path}" # # Filter out bad characters in the path name. # expr "${path}" : ".*[*?<>\\]" > /dev/null && exit 1 # # Catch embedded new-lines and non-existing (or path-relative) files. # # $0 should always be absolute when scripts are invoked through "#!". # test "`ls -l -d "${path}" 2> /dev/null | wc -l`" -eq 1 || exit 1 # # Change to the folder containing the file to resolve relative links. # folder=`expr "${path}" : "\(.*/\)[^/][^/]*/*$"` || exit 1 # path=`expr "x\`ls -l -d "${path}"\`" : "[^>]* -> \(.*\)"` # cd "${folder}" # # If the last path was not a link then we are in the target folder. # test -n "${path}" || pwd # done # ) if test -f /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox && test -x /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox; then INSTALL_DIR=/usr/lib/virtualbox elif test -f "${MY_DIR}/VirtualBox" && test -x "${MY_DIR}/VirtualBox"; then INSTALL_DIR="${MY_DIR}" else echo "Could not find VirtualBox installation. Please reinstall." exit 1 fi # Note: This script must not fail if the module was not successfully installed # because the user might not want to run a VM but only change VM params! if [ "$1" = "shutdown" ]; then SHUTDOWN="true" elif ! lsmod|grep -q vboxdrv; then cat << EOF WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module available for the current kernel (`uname -r`) or it failed to load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by sudo /sbin/vboxconfig You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed. EOF elif [ ! -c /dev/vboxdrv ]; then cat << EOF WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist. Try sudo /sbin/vboxconfig and if that is not successful, try to re-install the package. You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed. EOF fi if [ -f /etc/vbox/module_not_compiled ]; then cat << EOF WARNING: The compilation of the vboxdrv.ko kernel module failed during the installation for some reason. Starting a VM will not be possible. Please consult the User Manual for build instructions. EOF fi # Get effective user name to use it in order to compose XPCOM IPC socket path. VBOX_EFFECTIVE_USER="$(whoami)" if [ -z "$VBOX_EFFECTIVE_USER" ]; then cat << EOF WARNING: Unable to detect effective user name. VirtualBox might run incorrectly. EOF fi # Variables LOGNAME and USER are used by XPCOM code in order to # compose IPC socket path. If they set to something which is different # from the effective user name, it might result in misbehavior. # Setting VBOX_IPC_SOCKETID will tell XPCOM code which path it should use explicitly. [ -n "$LOGNAME" ] && [ "$LOGNAME" = "$VBOX_EFFECTIVE_USER" ] || vbox_override_env="1" [ -n "$USER" ] && [ "$USER" = "$VBOX_EFFECTIVE_USER" ] || vbox_override_env="1" if [ -n "$vbox_override_env" ]; then cat << EOF WARNING: Environment variable LOGNAME or USER does not correspond to effective user id. EOF export VBOX_IPC_SOCKETID="$VBOX_EFFECTIVE_USER" fi SERVER_PID=`ps -U "$VBOX_EFFECTIVE_USER" | grep VBoxSVC | awk '{ print $1 }'` if [ -z "$SERVER_PID" ]; then # Server not running yet/anymore, cleanup socket path. # See IPC_GetDefaultSocketPath()! rm -rf "/tmp/.vbox-$VBOX_EFFECTIVE_USER-ipc" > /dev/null 2>&1 fi if [ "$SHUTDOWN" = "true" ]; then if [ -n "$SERVER_PID" ]; then kill -TERM $SERVER_PID sleep 2 fi exit 0 fi APP=`basename $0` case "$APP" in VirtualBox|virtualbox) exec "$INSTALL_DIR/VirtualBox" "$@" ;; VirtualBoxVM|virtualboxvm) exec "$INSTALL_DIR/VirtualBoxVM" "$@" ;; VBoxManage|vboxmanage) exec "$INSTALL_DIR/VBoxManage" "$@" ;; VBoxSDL|vboxsdl) exec "$INSTALL_DIR/VBoxSDL" "$@" ;; VBoxVRDP|VBoxHeadless|vboxheadless) exec "$INSTALL_DIR/VBoxHeadless" "$@" ;; VBoxAutostart|vboxautostart) exec "$INSTALL_DIR/VBoxAutostart" "$@" ;; VBoxBalloonCtrl|vboxballoonctrl) exec "$INSTALL_DIR/VBoxBalloonCtrl" "$@" ;; VBoxBugReport|vboxbugreport) exec "$INSTALL_DIR/VBoxBugReport" "$@" ;; VBoxDTrace|vboxdtrace) exec "$INSTALL_DIR/VBoxDTrace" "$@" ;; VBoxAudioTest|vboxaudiotest|vkat) exec "$INSTALL_DIR/VBoxAudioTest" "$@" ;; vboxwebsrv) exec "$INSTALL_DIR/vboxwebsrv" "$@" ;; *) echo "Unknown application - $APP" exit 1 ;; esac exit 0