VirtualBox

Opened 7 years ago

Closed 17 months ago

Last modified 17 months ago

#16831 closed defect (fixed)

Multiple documentation errors in "run" and "start" subcommands of "VBoxManage guestcontrol"

Reported by: robpats Owned by:
Component: documentation Version: VirtualBox 5.1.22
Keywords: Cc:
Guest type: other Host type: other

Description

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-guestcontrol

  1. "--exe <path to executable>" is not mandatory.
  2. Examples of "run" and "start" subcommands are wrong.

They are examples of "exec" subcommand in VirtualBox 4.3.

  1. "start Executes a guest program until it completes." is wrong.

According to my observation, "start" subcommand executes a guest program and returns before it completes.

Change History (4)

comment:1 by Socratis, 6 years ago

Duplicate of #14890.

And yes, the manual still needs to be fixed... Adding it to my "Patches that won't kill you" list.

comment:2 by Klaus Espenlaub, 3 years ago

Let me comment on the original report:

  1. --exe is not strictly mandatory, you can also specify the same after "--". The documentation is a bit confusing here, because it's hard to express such cross-option dependencies.
  2. Yes, the --wait-exit doesn't exist any more and should've been removed everywhere (it was removed from the documented option list of "run" many years ago). Will happen with 6.1.24.
  3. Seems you're right, and needs fixing beyond the documentation part.

comment:3 by pentagonik, 17 months ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

comment:4 by pentagonik, 17 months ago

Should been fixed.

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