CS6200 VM Setup Notes

May 14, 2017 • Shangwen

VirtualBox Shared Folder Setup

  1. Install Guest Additions
  2. mkdir in host system
  3. mkdir in VM
  4. sudo mount -t vboxsf hostdir ~/VMdir/

PIP bug

usr/bin/pip need to be modified as root

Before:

from pip import main
if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.exit(main())

After:

from pip import __main__
if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.exit(__main__._main())