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Hi,

It usually worked to install the VirtualBox Extension Pack via command line, but since 5.1.20 it asks to confirm the licence agreement by pressing y/n - this seems contra productive to me as command line use is to avoid manual steps.
Is there any way to supress that?

I believe that the answer was given to you in the ticket you opened (and was closed as invalid): Ticket #16674: Command line installation of Extension Pack asks for Licence Agreement Confirmation.

Just execute the command and read the messages written by VBoxManage. There is an --accept-license parameter.

PS. On a personal note, was it worth it opening a new ticket, for a question that was already answered in the help? Rhetorical question...

This is a legal contract between you and the license issuer. It must be acknowledged with a yes/no or in this case by adding the accept-license tag to verify that you agree with the license. Small price to pay if you ask me.

And since this change has no doubt been mandated by an Oracle lawyer, I'd say that the chance of you getting the change rescinded is approximately 0.

So google lead me here..

Anyone know if this license tag changes on new versions ? I'm trying to automate this by getting the extension pack from whatever version I have installed automatically via ansible, and this broke hard for me..

No one would know of changes to new versions except the developers, and they would put the change in the changelog if they remember to.

It is not a good idea to roll out a new version of anything to locations where it would "break hard" for you if there were glitches. Test first on a test PC or three.

thats where its breaking, just saying.. if I have to adjust this everytime there is a new version it defeats the purpose of automation..

This should be script-able. Just poll the current installed base version and use the parse to name the extpack you want to install. See various extpacks for the naming convention. Another way I have seen is to use wildcards as long as the folder has only the latest extpack in it.

yep ..

- name: Get virtualbox version
  shell: "vboxmanage --help | head -n 1 | awk '{print $NF}'"
  register: vbox_version
  when: 'extpack_list.stdout == "Extension Packs: 0"'
- name: Download VirtualBox extension pack
  get_url: url="http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualb ... ox-extpack" dest=/tmp
  when: 'extpack_list.stdout == "Extension Packs: 0"'
- name: Install VirtualBox extension pack
  shell: "VBoxManage extpack install --replace /tmp/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-{{vbox_version.stdout}}.vbox-extpack --accept-license=715c7246dc0f779ceab39446812362b2f9bf64a55ed5d3a905f053cfab36da9e"
  when: 'extpack_list.stdout == "Extension Packs: 0"'
  ignore_errors: yes

This is how it is now for me.. so .. if I can't rely on this anymore I have to lock versions down until new license is checked..

socratis wrote:I believe that the answer was given to you in the ticket you opened
...
PS. On a personal note, was it worth it opening a new ticket, for a question that was already answered in the help? Rhetorical question...

It's just half of the answer - execute it AND accept the licence on the command line. I didn't image to get the command line parameter after accepting the licence - creative command line "help". I would really expect it to be available via --help but that part wasn't updated.

echo y | "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" extpack install --replace "C:\Path\to\Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.1.20-114628.vbox-extpack"

m.campanelli wrote:echo y | "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" extpack install --replace "C:\Path\to\Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.1.20-114628.vbox-extpack"

Works GREAT! Thanks!