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darlomrh

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Registered: 2014-04-28

Posts: 2

Newbie confusion over launching VBox Guest Services.

Hi all,

This is my first time of installing Arch Linux  as a guest using Virtual Box on a Mac. I have followed the instructions set out in the Wiki section for VBox.

The following excerpt below had me a confused for a while.

All these features can be enabled indepently and manually with their dedicated flags.
# VBoxClient --clipboard --draganddrop --seamless --display --checkhostversion
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 (or sudo):
# systemctl enable vboxservice

Am I correct in thinking that in order to get clipboard, full screen etc... I still have to use the VBoxClient -all command rather than the systemctl enable vboxservice?
I order to get the guest features to work I use the VBoxClient-all script in my autostart file.

If I run ps -ef | grep -i vbox without the autostart script i see the following below

root       184     1  0 14:44 ?        00:00:01 /usr/bin/VBoxService -f

and the clipboard features etc do not work.

Have I misunderstood something?

Thanks