Another fascist invades your system

Oracle must be very proud of their Virtual Box - a multiplatform virtualization system that runs anything from DOS to latest Windows servers...

Well, it's only nice and cute as long as you are following Oracle's ideal configuration, i.e. your /opt directory is NOT a symlink. If your /opt is a symlink, you are royally screwed due to two choices Oracle developers made FOR YOU: they do not allow changing target installation path and without telling you (read - without checking on install) they do not support running VMs out of symlinked paths. Listen carefully: they will install into a symlinked /opt, but will not run the VMs. Lame? It is.

If your Linux system is not configured exactly Oracle wants, no VirtualBox for you. Of course there is no such issue on Windows as no one uses symlinks there (and no one is concerned with 'security' that Oracle insists it has to enforce on your behalf whether you want it or not). VirtualBox does not concern itself with file/directory permissions on Windows and simply runs from whatever target folder you installed into. FY, Linux users, from Oracle with despise!

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