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diff --git a/system/virtualbox-ose/README b/system/virtualbox-ose/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1952e95230 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/virtualbox-ose/README @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +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. + +By default you have to create a vboxusers group, for example with + groupadd -g 215 vboxusers +and make your user a member of that group. +Alternatively, you can run the script with VBOXUSERS=no to allow all +users of your system to start virtual machines. + +By default VirtualBox will be compiled with hardening enabled. That +means all binaries will be run suid root, which is the default +behaviour of upstream packages. However, you are still able +to disable this by passing HARDENING=no to the script. +When hardening is enabled, VBOXUSERS is automatically set to yes. + +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 The Qt3 GUI is enabled by default, though that might +change with the next version as it is no longer maintained and likely +to be removed sometime soon.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 |