Porteus

vboxbuilder:
xfce > system > vboxbuilder > option virtualbox

1) There is supposed to be a download of crippled_sources.xzm in the tmp folder. This is not happening.

You have to download manually the crippled sources from a porteus 5.0 server.

2) The vboxbuilder guestadditions option does not work. It gives a message as to this should happen from the virtual machine. And within vbox there does not seem to be a way to install guestadditions unless you have the guestadditions.iso.

Any proposition for a turnaroud to the second bug?

After some additional search here is the guestadditions for vbox 7.06:<
https://download.virtualbox.org/virtual ... _7.0.6.iso

Hi francois i am new to porteus and do want to use vbox within my porteus 5.0 distro. I used the vbox builder and did have to manually download clrippled_sourses. I did build the run file looks like everything is fine. Question is what next ? how do i start the vbox? after the build i don't see the vbox in the menu anywhere. Thanks.

nevermind i did not realize this is a bug report thread.

I have a functional vbox module and so do you.

Go in the /tmp folder the module is there VirtualBox-7.0.8-porteus-v5.0-x86_64-1prt.xzm

Transfer it into /porteus/modules folder and reboot. A fter reboot you will select vbox from
xfce menu > system > oracle vm virtualbox to boot vbox.

Then you will have to install guest additions.

Thanks francois. I did this and after the reboot I did not see the vbox in the menu. Again, since I am new to this I am sure I must'have done something wrong. Will reinstall and try again and share the results.

hi you need the source of the kernel version to build virtualbox, is mandatory like the video driver build, i have done now on porteus 5 i have used the 6.1.33-porteus
/usr/src/vboxhost-7.0.8/vboxdrv
/usr/src/vboxhost-7.0.8/vboxnetadp
/usr/src/vboxhost-7.0.8/vboxnetflt
/usr/src/vboxhost-7.0.8/build_in_tmp
/usr/src/vboxhost-7.0.8/Makefile

Thanks beny, my knowledge is not there yet to do what you suggesting . I thought it would be as easy as the guide suggests. So I did and placed .xzm into /mnt/sdb1/modules. I went through vbox builder and selected .run file and everything checked out. When I boot porteus loads vbox module, but when I open the
menu 'settings' or 'system' there is no vbox there. So how do you start the vbox? Guest additions require vbox to run.

Thanks.

hi you can start the virtualbox.run but it need that you have the changes activated,only in this way you can run virtualbox,you can see the files in /opt and the other posted by me in /usr/src,the script in system make a xzm package of virtualbox and work also with or without changes,try and report if work.

reporting back - virtulabox.run not found. /usr/src/vboxhost-7.0.8/ directory is not in the /usr/src.
when booting terminal shows all the modules that are loaded and VirtualBox-7.0.8-porteus-v5.0-x86_64-1prt.xzm is one of them

please provide the results of the following:

hi BKG you can download the virtualbox.run and open a terminal type sh virtualbox-version.run and wait, crippled-source kernel is mandatory for this task we have also slackbuild for this task if you like it,ok try if work for you, the guest addiction and other software after the build of virtualbox.

francois wrote: ↑

15 Jun 2023, 01:52

please provide the results of the following:

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guest@porteus:~$ su
Password: 
root@porteus:/home/guest# updatedb
root@porteus:/home/guest# locate virtualbox.desktop
/opt/VirtualBox/virtualbox.desktop
/usr/share/applications/virtualbox.desktop
root@porteus:/home/guest# 

guest@porteus:~$ su
Password:
root@porteus:/home/guest# updatedb
root@porteus:/home/guest# locate virtualbox.desktop
root@porteus:/home/guest#

So nothing shows...

beny wrote: ↑

15 Jun 2023, 19:05

hi BKG you can download the virtualbox.run and open a terminal type sh virtualbox-version.run and wait, crippled-source kernel is mandatory for this task we have also slackbuild for this task if you like it,ok try if work for you, the guest addiction and other software after the build of virtualbox.

d

beny wrote: ↑

15 Jun 2023, 19:05

hi BKG you can download the virtualbox.run and open a terminal type sh virtualbox-version.run and wait, crippled-source kernel is mandatory for this task we have also slackbuild for this task if you like it,ok try if work for you, the guest addiction and other software after the build of virtualbox.

d not work, it is saying 'no such file or directory'

anyone can point to a step by step instructions? sorry not sure what am I doing wrong here. Thanks