[Slackbuilds-users] VirtualBox 5.x

[Ruben Schuller]

Hello,

2016-01-20 10:33 Ruben Schuller <ruben at rbn.im>:

> > Before I dive headfirst into this, I'd rather ask. Did someone here
> > successfully build VirtualBox 5.0.x on Slackware64 14.1? Any
> > pitfalls, caveats, whatever?
> 
> I have built a 5.x version, even without a multilib environment. Its
> a bit ago, but I'll see if i have anything useful when I'm back home.

I changed the version to 5.0.2 and added "--disable-vmmraw" to build on
slackware64 without multilib. There is only little documentation for this
switch, only some comments in the configure script:
https://www.virtualbox.org/browser/vbox/trunk/configure#L1894
So essentially this disables 32 bit guests as a tradeoff.

Here's a diff of the 14.1 SlackBuilds.org version and my modified
slackbuild:

--- slackrepo/SBo/slackbuilds/system/virtualbox/virtualbox.SlackBuild	2016-01-20 15:12:49.067362537 +0100
+++ /tmp/virtualbox.SlackBuild	2016-01-20 17:39:23.550784717 +0100
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 
 PRGNAM=virtualbox
 SRCNAM=VirtualBox
-VERSION=${VERSION:-4.3.24}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-5.0.2}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@
   --disable-kmods \
   --enable-vde \
   --enable-vnc \
+  --disable-vmmraw \
   $web_service \
   $harden \
   $gui \

I've mailed Heinz Wiesinger about the --disable-vmmraw switch a few
months ago, he considers it for inclusion as an option.

So long,
Ruben