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vbox-runner

Allows you to start your VirtualBox virtual machines from Krunner (Alt-Space) in Plasma 5.

This is a fork from http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/VBox+Runner?content=107926, because it is discontinued.

Build instructions

Prerequisites

* Qt5
* KF5

Archlinux

sudo pacman -S cmake extra-cmake-modules

Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt install cmake extra-cmake-modules build-essential libkf5runner-dev libkf5kio-dev libkf5textwidgets-dev qtdeclarative5-dev gettext

openSUSE

sudo zypper install cmake extra-cmake-modules libQt5Widgets5 libQt5Core5 libqt5-qtlocation-devel ki18n-devel ktextwidgets-devel kservice-devel krunner-devel gettext-tools

Fedora

sudo dnf install cmake extra-cmake-modules kf5-ki18n-devel kf5-kservice-devel kf5-krunner-devel kf5-ktextwidgets-devel gettext

Build

1. Configure -> cmake .
2. Build -> make
3. Install -> sudo make install
4. Restart Krunner. kquitapp5 krunner; kstart5 --windowclass krunner krunner

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Overview of virtual machines, they get sorted by the number of launches

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vbox-runner's Issues

Incorrect path to VirtualBox

The path to the VirtualBox isn't correct: https://github.com/alvanieto/vbox-runner/blob/master/vbox/vbox.cpp#L56
The correct path is .config/VirtualBox/...

I resolve that with a symbolic link

Build steps not working on Kubuntu 18.04

The steps from the "Build" section of the README.md don't work at all.
cmake complains about missing directories and if I mkdir them, it complains about a missing CMakeLists.txt.
I ended up just doing cmake . && make && sudo make install, which produced a working binary, but installed it to the wrong directory.
Where krunner expects it: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins
Where "make install" actually put it: /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/plugins

Anyway, still a great piece of software, once those build problems were resolved, no extra configuration was needed, it just worked out of the box :)

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