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author Heinz Wiesinger2010-05-12 17:46:18 +0200
committer David Somero2010-05-12 17:46:18 +0200
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system/virtualbox-ose: Updated for version 2.1.4
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@@ -2,20 +2,13 @@ VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE) is a general-purpose full
virtualizer for x86 hardware.
You'll probably want to add the following lines to your rc.local:
-
# Start vboxdrv
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.vboxdrv ]; then
/etc/rc.d/rc.vboxdrv start
fi
- # Start vboxnet
- if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.vboxnet ]; then
- /etc/rc.d/rc.vboxnet start
- fi
-
-This will load the support kernel module and will setup the network
-configuration for VirtualBox. You should add similar "stop" lines to
-your rc.local_shutdown.
+This will load the support kernel module for VirtualBox. You should add
+similar "stop" lines to your rc.local_shutdown.
By default you have to create a vboxusers group, for example with
groupadd -g 215 vboxusers
@@ -33,16 +26,17 @@ If the VirtualBox Additions ISO is available in the same directory
as the build script, it will be included in the package and placed
under /usr/share/virtualbox/. Same goes for the UserManual
They can be downloaded from:
- http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/2.0.6/VBoxGuestAdditions_2.0.6.iso
- http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/2.0.6/UserManual.pdf
-
-Since 2.0.0 there is a Qt4 GUI, which at this point of time is still a little
-bit buggy and therefore disabled by default. To enable it pass QT4=yes
-to the script. The Qt3 GUI is enabled by default, though that might
-change with the next version as it is no longer maintained and likely
-to be removed sometime soon. To disable it, pass QT3=no to the script.
-
-If you want pulseaudio support, you have to pass PULSE=yes to the
-build script. Additionally VirtualBox requires acpica and dev86. The
-virtualbox-kernel package is required at runtime. All dependencies
-are available from SlackBuilds.org
+ http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/2.1.4/VBoxGuestAdditions_2.1.4.iso
+ http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/2.1.4/UserManual.pdf
+
+Since 2.0.0 there is a Qt4 GUI, which is enabled by default. To disable it pass
+QT4=no to the script. An older, no longer maintained Qt3 GUI is also available
+but disabled by default (no new features have been added to this since 2.0).
+To enable it, pass QT3=yes to the script.
+Beware: the Qt3 GUI has already been removed from svn trunk, and 2.2.0 will
+only have a Qt4 GUI available.
+
+For pulseaudio support, pass PULSE=yes to the build script. This requires
+pulseaudio to be installed.
+
+This requires acpica, and the virtualbox-kernel package is needed at runtime.