Hey, thank you both for your help.
VirtualBox is installed via Windows, that's why I thought that the setting for "machinepath" needs to be a Windows-like path, no? Thanks, Thomas wynfi...@gmail.com schrieb:
I agree with Achim. Don't use Microsoft Windows paths. Cygwin has a function called cygpath which is very handy to use to convert paths and use in zsh and other shell scripts In zsh, using zsh syntax, I use it like this: Convert the first argument to a micrsoft window format pathname winpath=$(cygpath -w $1) or to convert a Windows formatted pathname to unix like do: fname=$(cygpath -w ${windows-type-ifname}) a hardcoded filename would be fname=$(cygpath -w ${C:\miscrosoft\windows-type-ifname.abc}) * you may need to quote the flename to escape : or \.... Thomas Deinhamer<tha...@gmail.com> wrote:.... I'm new to Cygwin, new to this newsgroup too. ;) I'm running Cygwin and using the zsh shell. In the .zshrc file I got these lines: alias vboxmanage=VBoxManage vboxmanage setproperty machinefolder "C:\Users\$USER\VirtualBox VMs\" When I try to boot a VM using vagrant (which uses vboxmanage internally I think) sometimes $USER is not resolved to the real username. Instead vboxmanage creates a new machinefolder on C:/ which is then called "Users$USER" and inside this folder there is the folder "VirtualBox VMs", so the wrong path is "C:\Users$USER\VirtualBox VMs\". How could that be? Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Do I need to escape the backslashes or is there anything else I need to take care of? I'm wondering why it only fails sometimes. Thanks a lot, Thomas
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