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virtualbox-ose package

/etc/init.d/vboxweb-service missing

Asked by Feydreva

Hello,

I'm trying to install virtualbox...
 goal is to have phpvirtualbox running...

so 1st i need to do a
#/etc/init.d/vboxweb-service start, to verofy it s running porperly...

but the vboxweb-service script is not present.

What did I miss ?
Website/google tells me it should be there when I install virtualbox...

Any idea ???

Thank you for your help !!!!

I run Ubuntu server 10.11 32 bit

and

#apt-cache show virtualbox
Package: virtualbox
Priority: optional
Section: universe/misc
Installed-Size: 44948
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Debian Virtualbox Team <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 4.1.2-dfsg-1ubuntu1

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#1

You need anything to install VirtualBox except the ".deb" file, which contains files to be installed and installation script.
Could you provide the link from which you get such information.

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Peter Samaras (peter-m-samaras) said : 		#2

About the question:
The original question was about what the user missed in trying to install phpvirtualbox which is a related, but a separate application which uses VirtualBox.

Answer:
The answer is the user needs to install virtual box from source, since at this time of writing, the binary packages for virtualbox do not contain /etc/init.d/vboxweb-service, which is present in the source.

Why is vboxweb-service missing?
The reason for why the script is missing is probably due to Linux services differing across distributions and hence the script may need to be modified to be compatible with specific distributions.

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