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VirtualBox building from source

Written by at March 5, 2012

This post guide you thru the installation of VirtualBox base on my experience on Slackware 13.37. Several extra packages are required to build the VirtualBox from source.

OS: Slackware 13.37 64bit
Software: VirtualBox-4.1.8

Pre-requirement

  • Install PAM for remote display authentication. If you are intend for using locally, you could safely skip this step.
  • Install acpica 
    cd acpica/source/tools/acpibin
INSTALLDIR =            /usr/local/acpica/bin
make
make install   /* install the binary to /usr/bin */

cd acpica/source/tools/acpiexec
INSTALLDIR =            /usr/local/acpica/bin
make
make install   /* install the binary to /usr/bin */

cd acpica/source/tools/acpihelp
INSTALLDIR =            /usr/local/acpica/bin
make
make install   /* install the binary to /usr/bin */

cd acpica/source/tools/acpinames
INSTALLDIR =            /usr/local/acpica/bin
make
make install   /* install the binary to /usr/bin */

cd acpica/source/tools/acpisrc
INSTALLDIR =            /usr/local/acpica/bin
make
make install   /* install the binary to /usr/bin */

cd acpica/source/tools/acpixtract
INSTALLDIR =            /usr/local/acpica/bin
make
make install   /* install the binary to /usr/bin */

cd acpica/source/compiler
INSTALLDIR =            /usr/local/acpica/bin
make
make install   /* install the binary to /usr/bin */
  • speexdsp 
    ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/speex
make
make install
  • json-c 
    ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/json-c --disable-static
make
make install
  • pulseaudio 
    groupadd -g 182 pulse
groupadd -g 183 pulse-access
useradd -u 182 -g 182 -d /usr/local/pulseaudio -s /bin/false -c 'PulseAudio' pulse

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pulseaudio
make
make install
  • makeself 
    cd /usr/local/makeself
sh ./makeself.run --keep --target /usr/local/makeself
  • Install jdk from slackware package or from Oracle

Building

  • Download the VirtualBox source and extract 
    export VBOX_JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java
./configure --with-makeself=/usr/local/makeself/makeself.sh --disable-docs
source ./env.sh
kmk all
  • Build package 
    kmk packing
  • A ready run script for installation will located at ./out/linux.amd64/release/bin
  • Running the script, will
    • Build modules and install it at /lib/modules/2.6.37.6/misc/
    • Create /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg
    • All files in /opt/VirtualBox
    • Symbolic link executable from /usr/bin

Install extension pack

  • Download the extension pack from VirtualBox 
    VBoxManage extpack install <the name of the>.vbox-extpack

Running

You could start your VirtualBox by running VirtualBox.

Outstanding issues

  • Window addition won’t be compile, as you need to building by Window