FS#30725 - [virtualbox-archlinux-additions] provide a systemd unit file

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Andreas Trepczik (bzt) - Tuesday, 17 July 2012, 14:39 GMT
Last edited by Sébastien Luttringer (seblu) - Tuesday, 24 July 2012, 17:26 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Sébastien Luttringer (seblu)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
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Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
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Details

There should be a systemd unit file to run the VBoxService from an Arch Linux installation running systemd inside VirtualBox.

The attached unit file is taken from the RPM Fusion repo, see the link below. It works as well on Arch Linux as it does on Fedora.

http://cvs.rpmfusion.org/viewvc/rpms/VirtualBox/F-17/?root=free

Also, the same link has another unit file for the vbox webservice, which could be included in the virtualbox package.
   vboxservice.service (0.2 KiB)
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Closed by  Sébastien Luttringer (seblu)
Tuesday, 24 July 2012, 17:26 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  virtualbox-4.1.18-3
Comment by Christian Hesse (eworm) - Friday, 20 July 2012, 09:40 GMT
A group 'vboxsf' is needed as well... Can we create that in install file?
Comment by Sébastien Luttringer (seblu) - Friday, 20 July 2012, 12:06 GMT
what's the link between systemd file and this group? And the purpose of this group?
Comment by Christian Hesse (eworm) - Friday, 20 July 2012, 12:29 GMT
I think this is independent of systemd. When starting VBoxService you get:

VBoxService: Error: VBoxServiceAutoMountWorker: Group "vboxsf" does not exist

After creating the group shared folder are mounted to /media/sf_${sharename} automatically.
(A user then has to be member of this group for access to the folder.)

If you like I will open a new bug report for this.
Comment by Sébastien Luttringer (seblu) - Saturday, 21 July 2012, 16:10 GMT
ok, i neved used this before. I will fix it in next release.

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