[Slackbuilds-users] virtualbox slackbuilds

[Jim]

Thanks to both 高文偉 and Giancarlo, with the slackbuilds from mdinslage at
github, I had VBox 7.0.14 running in no time.  (And thanks to Matt Dinslage
as well!)

SBO admins and volunteers: if the VBox 6 maintainer is out for a long
walkabout, perhaps a regular VBox user would like to get the ones from
mdinslage up to standards?

Cheers.

                                Jim


On Sat, Feb  3, 2024 at 03:03 (+0800), 高文偉 via SlackBuilds-users wrote:

> Hi Jim,

> Some others and I have been waiting too, as seen in this thread
> (https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/building-virtualbox-7-on-slackware-15-a-4175727199/)
> and this thread
> (https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/building-virtualbox-kernel-slackbuild-for-6-6-x-kernel-branch-4175731627/). You
> can try suggestions in both, I also weighed in but currently I'll
> recommend Daedra's scripts
> (https://github.com/mdinslage/Custom_SlackBuilds/tree/main/virtualbox-7.0.12)
> in the former post.

> -- ltlnx

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On Sat, Feb  3, 2024 at 00:17 (+0100), Giancarlo Dessì wrote:


> Il 02/02/24 15:01, Jim ha scritto:
>> All,

>> I recently started running the 6.6.12 kernel.  All (well, everything I use)
>> is working except virtualbox-kernel, which won't compile on that kernel.

>> Looking on the web, I see the particular problem I'm having has been fixed
>> in newer versions of virtualbox.  I see that aside from 6.1.55, there is
>> also 7.0.14.

>> I emailed the maintainer on Monday, but haven't heard back.  Maybe he's
>> away, and that's fine, but I was wondering if anyone has been in touch with
>> him recently.

>> Anyone?

>> Jim


> In current I used VB 6.1.32 for a long time and solved issues due last
> updates of the kernel using a patch. It works fine, but the recent upgrade
> of libvpx has required the rebuild of virtualbox driver. This has brought
> many problems and some day ago I decided to use the slackbuild of Daedra for
> virtualbox 7.0.12. In Slackware current It works and should also work with
> VB 7.0.14.

> https://github.com/mdinslage/Custom_SlackBuilds/tree/main/virtualbox-7.0.12

> You have to do the following things:

> 1) if you require the software virtualization install the multilib of
> AlienBob

> 2) if you have an installation of Java 11 or earlier, downgrade to Java 8
> because the build of VirtualBox needs wsimport (droppend since Java 11). It
> is required only for the build: next time you can upgrade to earlier version
> of JDK

> The installation of gsoap and acpica from SBo's slackbuilds are fully
> compatible. This happened in current, I don't know if there are problems
> with Slackware 15.0

> -

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