VirtualBox
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Introduction to VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.[1]
Dependencies
VirtualBox only supports x86 and x86_64.
Required
Optional
Creating the vboxusers Group
groupadd -g 29 vboxusers
Users that are going to use VirtualBox should be added to this group.
Non-Multilib
Compile VirtualBox:
sed -i "s@/usr/X11R6@${XORG_PREFIX}@g" $(grep -lr /usr/X11R6 *) &&
./configure --with-xerces="-lpthread -lxerces-c" \
--with-qt-dir=$QTDIR &&
source env.sh &&
kmk
Build the kernel module:
cd out/linux.*/release/bin/src && make
Install the kernel module:
make install
Install VirtualBox:
cd .. && install -m755 -d -v /opt/VirtualBox && cp -av * /opt/VirtualBox
Multilib
ToDo
Configuring
The kernel module needs to be loaded for VirtualBox to function. Make sure it gets loaded on boot:
echo "vboxdrv" >> /etc/sysconfig/modules
Also lets create a udev rule so that /dev/vboxdev can be accessed by the users in the vboxusers group.
cat > /etc/udev/rules.d/90-vboxdev.rules << "EOF" KERNEL=="vboxdev", NAME="%k", MODE="0660", GROUP="vboxusers" EOF
Create a helper script that will start VBoxSVC and then execute the specified client:
cat > /opt/VirtualBox/VBox.sh << "EOF"
#!/bin/sh
INSTALL_PATH="/opt/VirtualBox"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}${LD_LIBRARY_PATH+:}${INSTALL_PATH}"
SERVER_GET_PID="eval SERVER_PID=\$(ps -U $(whoami) | grep VBoxSVC | awk '{ print \$1 }')"
$SERVER_GET_PID
if [ "$1" = "shutdown" -a -n "$SERVER_PID" ]; then
kill -TERM $SERVER_PID
exit 0
fi
if [ ! -x "$INSTALL_PATH/VBoxSVC" ]; then
echo "$INSTALL_PATH/VBoxSVC does not exist! Can not continue."
exit 1
fi
APP=$(which $0)
APP=${APP##/*/}
if [ ! -x "$INSTALL_PATH/$APP" ]; then
echo "$INSTALL_PATH/$APP does not exist!"
exit 1
fi
case "$APP" in
VirtualBox|VBoxManage|VBoxSDL|VBoxVRDP)
EXEC_APP="$INSTALL_PATH/$APP"
;;
*)
echo "Unknown application - $APP"
;;
esac
if [ -z "$SERVER_PID" ]; then
rm -rf /tmp/.vbox-$(whoami)-ipc
"$INSTALL_DIR/VBoxSVC" --daemonize
fi
$SERVER_GET_PID
if [ -z "$SERVER_PID" ]; then
echo "VBoxSVC failed to start. Can not continue"
exit 1
fi
exec "$EXEC_APP" "$@"
EOF
A script similar to the one above is shipped with the binary version.
Link the binaries we want to run to the script:
for file in VirtualBox VBoxManage VBoxSDL VBoxVRDP; do [ -f "/opt/VirtualBox/$file" ] && ln -sfv "../../opt/VirtualBox/VBox.sh" "/usr/bin/$file" done
