Re: [Hampshire] VirtualBox revisited

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Author: Tony Whitmore
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] VirtualBox revisited

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On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 11:03:21AM +0000, john lewis wrote:
> Then I discovered an installation script at
>
>    http://www.virtualbox.org/download/1.3.8/VirtualBox_1.3.8_Linux_x86.run

>
> which I downloaded and put into the directory where I'd un-tarred the
> source code and ran the script. It then installed the VB
> binaries into /opt/inotek/VisualBox and set up various files
> in /etc/vbox/, /etc/group/ and /etc/init.d/ which resolve the
> 'location of files problem'
>
> It looks like getting the source code may not in fact be needed as
> the bulk of the VirtualBox_1.3.8_Linux_x86.run file consists of
> stuff like


<snip>

It's a self-extracting binary archive, so the source isn't required.

Tony