It seems that VirtualBox 6 moved some functionality (--startvm) from VirtualBox to VirtualBoxVM: $ VirtualBox --help Oracle VM VirtualBox VM Selector v6.0.4_Gentoo (C) 2005-2019 Oracle Corporation All rights reserved. No special options. If you are looking for --startvm and related options, you need to use VirtualBoxVM. Indeed /usr/lib64/virtualbox/VirtualBoxVM supports '--startvm', but it is not symlinked to /usr/bin Looking at virtualbox-6.0.4.ebuild:366 and app-emulation/virtualbox/files/virtualbox-ose-6-wrapper I see that symlinking/wrapping was implemented but commented out w/o a reason. To be able to start a virtual machine from command line it would be nice to have the symlinking for VirtualBoxVM back again.
# emerge --info =virtualbox-6.0.4 Portage 2.3.51 (python 3.6.5-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma, gcc-7.3.0, glibc-2.27-r6, 4.20.4-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.20.4-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_M_620_@_2.67GHz-with-gentoo-2.6 KiB Mem: 8021648 total, 3722012 free KiB Swap: 2097148 total, 2097148 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 19:15:01 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: 1f723633415d54b4416a6618dd57904e8f3828b2 sh bash 4.4_p23-r1 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.30 p5) 2.30.0 distcc 3.2rc1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.4_p23-r1::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0-r4::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.26.2::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.15::gentoo, 3.6.5::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.9.6::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.29.2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.6-r1::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.38.3-r1::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.13::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13-r1::gentoo, 2.69-r4::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r3::gentoo, 1.16.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.30-r4::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 7.3.0-r3::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.0::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r3::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.2.1-r4::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.14-r1::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.27-r6::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1 sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 24 sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes sync-rsync-extra-opts: local location: /usr/local/portage masters: gentoo crossdev location: /usr/local/portage-crossdev masters: gentoo priority: 10 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" ENV_UNSET="DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY GOBIN PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs collision-protect config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync multilib-strict news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mirrors/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi activities alsa amd64 berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit crypt cups cxx dbus declarative device-mapper dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam flac fortran fuse gdbm gif glamor gphoto2 gpm gtk iconv ipv6 jpeg kde kipi kwallet lcms ldap libnotify libtirpc mad mng mp3 mp4 mpeg multilib ncurses networkmanager nls nptl ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf phonon plasma png policykit ppds qml qt5 readline sdl seccomp semantic-desktop spell ssl startup-notification svg tcpd tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vorbis widgets wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xcomposite xml xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="karbon sheets words" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="pc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-6 php7-1" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres9_5 postgres10" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_6" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby24" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= app-emulation/virtualbox-6.0.4::gentoo was built with the following: USE="alsa opengl opus pam qt5 sdk udev -debug -doc -headless -java -libressl -lvm -pax_kernel -pulseaudio -python -vboxwebsrv -vnc" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7"
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=99d0d10c95f0718c98cd19ef5ebb4599cc5fa2c9 commit 99d0d10c95f0718c98cd19ef5ebb4599cc5fa2c9 Author: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-02-02 10:39:35 +0000 Commit: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-02-02 10:41:14 +0000 app-emulation/virtualbox: Added forgotten symlinks. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/677090 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.59, Repoman-2.3.12 Signed-off-by: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> app-emulation/virtualbox/files/virtualbox-ose-6-wrapper | 6 +++--- .../{virtualbox-6.0.4.ebuild => virtualbox-6.0.4-r1.ebuild} | 3 +-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
