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Hi everyone,

I really have tried to find this question but had no success. I have a Windows 7 64bit host and I'm running a Bio-Linux which is Ubuntu Linux 10.04 OS guest. I got it from nebc.nerc.ac.uk/tools/bio-linux which was used on a bioinformatics workshop and suggested by a professor. Sadly the guest I made hast too little disk memory so I tried using VBoxManage commands and it said that the command wasn't found. I tried googling for a solution on installing or locating the command but nothing seems to help. In advance I can say that this isn't a case problem, I did type it in every case variation from VBoxManage to vboxmanage. Also tried locate command on them but it did not work. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
B

The path to VBoxManage is "c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox". You need to add that path to your system path, or include that path when you type the VBoxManage command.

The VBoxManage command is on your host, you will not find it "in Bio-Linux", which incidentally is (AFAICS) just an application, not a new guest OS.

Moving this discussion to "Windows Hosts".

mpack wrote:The path to VBoxManage is "c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox". You need to add that path to your system path, or include that path when you type the VBoxManage command.
The VBoxManage command is on your host, you will not find it "in Bio-Linux", which incidentally is (AFAICS) just an application, not a new guest OS.
Moving this discussion to "Windows Hosts".

Thanks for the help! I tried adding the VirtualBox file to the path with
It didn't work, which I suspected since the file is in the host and since my knowledge on this is still rudimentary. Would you mind telling me the commands necessary to add the VirtualBox commands to the path from the "c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox" on the host?

VBoxManage is a HOST program and as such must be run from the host. Add the environmental variable to the host.

Got it working, thank you both. I can proceed to make VBoxManage modifyhd work for me.

Hi brianxelon!
Hi Peryg

Please tell the steps to add environment variable in case of VBoxmange to host.

Tuition in the use of your chosen host OS is beyond the scope of these forums. I'm sure Google can help you however.