Bash Command Help

There are a few steps to launching a program, so i decided id put all the commands i need into a bash command, but one of the commands needs to be run as root. so i thought no problem i just sudo it. But the command needs to be run in X so it doesnt ask for the root password, it just skips the command and launchs the app which promptly breaks.

So how in a bash command do i open the nice looking run command a super user dialog?

the command that i need to run is:

/etc/init.d/vboxdrv start

If you want to launch programs in X for GNOME and KDE there are two commands you can use use, gnomesu and kdesu.

For the Virtual Box driver it could be easier to just add it as a module that gets loaded at boot using YaST > /etc/sysconfig Editor > System > Kernel > MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT , and file this last parameter vboxdrv (unless you don't always want it loaded).

Cheers,
Wj

yeah i was typing on auto pilot im gonna change "start" to "setup" so that i dont have to duck into terminal after kernel update to recompile the driver.

yeah i was typing on auto pilot im gonna change "start" to "setup" so that i dont have to duck into terminal after kernel update to recompile the driver.
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Ahh ok... that sounds like a good script It would be good when they find a solution that keeps track of what drivers and modules get added/setup with a certain kernel version so they automatically get re-added when updating the kernel.
But if it where that simple I guess it would have been there already.

Cheers,
Wj

ok this is the script that i wrote, it recompiles the Virtual Box Kernel module and then launches the given VM

#!/bin/bash
gnomesu /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
VBoxManage startvm "WindowsXP"

the "WindowsXP" bit need to be changed to the name of the VM that you are trying to boot.