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diff --git a/system/virtualbox-ose/README b/system/virtualbox-ose/README index 1952e95230..184f4ebd20 100644 --- a/system/virtualbox-ose/README +++ b/system/virtualbox-ose/README @@ -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 The Qt3 GUI is enabled by default, though that might -change with the next version as it is no longer maintained and likely -to be removed sometime soon.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 An older, no longer maintained Qt3 GUI is also available +but disabled by default (no new features have been added to this since 2.0).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. |