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FS#43185 - Documentation inaccurately suggests systemctl vboxservice executes VBoxClient-all

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Charlie Benton (bentonc) - Sunday, 21 December 2014, 18:40 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Sunday, 21 December 2014, 19:04 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Documentation
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

The VirtualBox documentation at:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VirtualBox#Installation_steps_for_Arch_Linux_guests

States:

"""

But VirtualBox provides a currently undocumented feature, a Bash script VBoxClient-all which enables all these features automatically and checks if a X11 server is really running before enabling some of them.

# VBoxClient-all

To start that script automatically when system starts run the following command as root:

# systemctl enable vboxservice

"""

However, /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vboxservice.service only executes four commands:

[Service]
ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/modprobe vboxguest
ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/modprobe vboxvideo
ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/modprobe vboxsf
ExecStart=/usr/bin/VBoxService -f

It does not execute VBoxClient-all or any of the commands contained in VBoxClient-all. To do this you still need to add VBoxClient-all to your .xinitrc. The VirtualBox client will not resize your desktop automatically until you do so.

Additional info:

local/virtualbox-guest-dkms 4.3.20-3
local/virtualbox-guest-modules 4.3.20-3
local/virtualbox-guest-utils 4.3.20-3
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Sunday, 21 December 2014, 19:04 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  The wiki is community maintained documentation. If it's wrong, fix it.

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