A general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware Was Maintained by:vbox@FreeBSD.org Port Added: 15 Jun 2009 19:02:02 Also Listed In:kld
VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for
enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely
feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it
is also the only professional solution that is freely available as
Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
WWW: http://www.virtualbox.org/
No installation instructions: this port has been deleted.
The package name of this deleted port was: virtualbox
Configuration Options
===> The following configuration options are available for virtualbox-3.0.51.r22902_3:
QT4=on (default) "Build with QT4 Frontend"
DEBUG=off (default) "Build with debugging symbols"
GUESTADDITIONS=off (default) "Build with Guest Additions"
DBUS=on (default) "Build with D-Bus and HAL support"
PULSEAUDIO=off (default) "Build with PulseAudio"
X11=on (default) "Build with X11 support"
NLS=on (default) "Native language support"
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Reason:
Port has been renamed to emulators/virtualbox-ose to reflect that we are
using the OSE version. A seperate port for the kernel modules has been
created: emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod
Please see http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox for update instructions.
2009-06-17
Affects: users of emulators/virtualbox
Author: beat@FreeBSD.org
Reason:
The GID of virtualbox has changed due to a conflict with databases/couchdb.
Update GID of vboxusers after updating the port:
# pw groupmod vboxusers -g 920
Port Moves
port moved to emulators/virtualbox-ose on 2010-01-13 REASON: Renamed and split into two components
Number of commits found: 16
Commit History - (may be incomplete: see CVSWeb link above for full details)
emulators/virtualbox:
- Remove emulators/virtualbox port. Renamed to emulators/virtualbox-ose
and seperate port for the kernel modules created:
emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod.
emulators/virtualbox-ose:
- Update to 3.1.2
- Update guest additions to 3.1.2
- Port has been renamed to virtualbox-ose to reflect that we are using
the OSE version. [1]
- Added proper PulseAudio support for FreeBSD [2]
- procfs is not required anymore because vbox uses sysctl(3) now [3]
- Update pkg-message to reflect recent changes
- Add nox's FreeBSD host networking patches that are now also in the
upstream vbox svn (modulo vbox variable naming style adjustments:)
(Only the first 15 lines of the commit message are shown above )
- Disable testcases to fix possible build breakage with non default
options set
PR: ports/140171
Submitted by: Hubert Tournier <hubert AT tournier.org>
Reported by: Stanislav Dulis <stasd AT xnx.ru> (via private mail)
- Improve error message if /usr/lib32 is not installed on amd64. [1]
- Fix pkg-plist. Additions directory is only created with
WITH_GUESTADDITIONS option. [2]
- Add patch to fix panic with vboxnet driver. [3]
- Bump PORTREVISION.
PR: ports/138935 [1] (based on)
Reported by: scf@ [3]
Submitted by: Julian H. Stacey <jhs AT berklix.com> [1],
Bernhard Froehlich <decke AT bluelife.at> [2],
Fredrik Lindberg <fli AT shapeshifter.se> [3]
On behalf of: vbox@ (decke, dhn, itetcu, miwi, nox)
Feature safe: yes
- Update to 3.0.51r22902. This version enables host serial support
and support for bridged and hostonly networking contributed by
Fredrik Lindberg <fli AT shapeshifter.se>.
- Install GuestAdditions in designated directory. [1]
- Install NLS files in designated directory.
- Add workaround for directory permission problem.
Reported by: Jonathan Chen <jonc AT chen.org.nz> [1]
On behalf of: vbox@ (decke, dhn, beat, nox)
- Update to 3.0.51r22683. This version adds support for tap interface
networking done by nox@, working VT-x, ACPI and Host DVD/CD access
support and several FreeBSD related bugfixes.
- Update Guest Additions to 3.0.6.
- Respect CC and CXX variables. [1]
- Add support for WITHOUT_X11 build. [2]
- Fix pkg-plist for WITHOUT_NLS. [2]
- Use LocalConfig.kmk to simplify configuration. [2]
- Install vboxapi module and fix xpcom.vboxxpcom python api. [2]
PR: ports/138063 [1]
Submitted by: Anonymous <swell dot k at gmail dot com> [1],
Bernhard Froehlich <decke AT bluelife.at> [2]
On behalf of: vbox@ (decke, dhn, miwi, nox)
- Update to 3.0.51r22226
- Update Guest Additions to 3.0.4
- Add wiki page link to pkg-message
- Add missing libxslt dependency [1]
- Add NLS support [2]
- Installing C and Python bindings [3]
- Add patch to pass a physical disk to vbox [4]
Submitted by: Guido Falsi <mad AT madpilot.net> [1], nork [2],
Bernhard Froehlich <decke AT bluelife.at> [3], nox [4]
Thanks to: All testers and patch submitters their patch already
included upstream
On behalf of: vbox@ (decke, dhn, miwi, nox)
- Add GID and UID for emulators/virtualbox.
- Change virtualbox GID in port Makefile due to a conflict with
databases/couchdb and add UPDATING note.
- Bump PORTREVISION.
Reported by: Mike Harding <mvh AT ix.netcom.com>
- Actually install VBoxTestOGL (it was built, just not installed...)
- Fix libGL.so.1 search so it isn't expected in /
- Fix packaging for vboxdrv.ko
- Bump PORTREVISION
Approved by: vbox@ (miwi)
VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for
enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely
feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it
is also the only professional solution that is freely available as
Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
WWW: http://www.virtualbox.org/
Note:
Please READ pkg-messages carefully, also please
take a look in the Wiki page (http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox)
Thanks to: thank you to everyone who helped make this possible.
