How to set VBOX_USER_HOME environmental variable on a Mac

[andre-CA]

How do I set the VBOX_USER_HOME=PATHNAME environmental variable on Snow Leopard Mac Os X 10.6.2?

I want all users to share a single value for this varriable when they login. Thanks.

[ChipMcK]

Google "macosx environment variables" when you have time to do a lot of reading.

The info is buried and, as always, there are multiple ways depending on . . .

Best of Luck finding your method

[andre-CA]

I have spent many hours of reading and I am new to the Mac so I am just not sure which will work for me and what is the easiest way. If someone has set the the variable VBOX_USER_HOME on a Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - I would greatly appreciate them listing the steps here. I don't want to become an expert at Mac environmental variables - I just need to set this (as do other Mac Host users) so that when different users logon to the Mac they can use the same VMs.

My full question is here: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=28418

and another user with the same question here: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=24613

Thanks.

[baf]

One way I think should work.
Put:
export VBOX_USER_HOME=wanted_value
in /etc/profile and I think it should do what you want.

[ChipMcK]

All the methods work and are easy to use.

The main hang-ups are
- Command Line
- GUI
- Spotlight
- What version of OS X
- What are the users going to be using

The only real answer is to experiment.

Best of Luck! (Personally, I would go with SpotLight.)

[andre-CA]

Being very new to the Mac - the post above from baf seems easy enough to try.

One way I think should work.
Put:
export VBOX_USER_HOME=wanted_value
in /etc/profile and I think it should do what you want.

ChopMcK - How would I do the spotlight method that you suggest? Thanks again for your thoughts on this.