Porteus

I wanted to try virtualbox today.
I tried first with pmod though no luck with the kernel.
I tried with aur, but the same thing, the package was built but the kernel doesn't fit (the pkbuild is a bit intricate).
Then I took a deep breath eh... tried porteus scripts on nemesis, after a bit of tweaking finally the module was built.
When I tried it though, the same claimed for the kernel (even though I had used nemesis' devels and crippled, not porteus ones).
Do you have any idea?

vinnie wrote: ↑

21 Jul 2024, 11:43

Do you have any idea?

Porteus has Vbox builder (search it in menu). You will need also 05-devel and 06-crippled_sources modules activated.
VirtualBox is kernel related app, has to be made according to kernel !

yes on porteus i had succeeded, but i am trying on nemesis now (and i tried to use porteus scripts also on nemesis in the third try)

virtualbox need the kernel crippled source installed because some scripts are stored in /usr/src and when you start a local script it make a directory with virtualbox deps for the kernel version that is running on system the kernel source is mandatory to build virtualbox, also in nemesis take a look at this link:

https://packages.artixlinux.org/details/virtualbox

that's why I had tried to adapt brokenman's script, I had also installed the crippled sources.
I thought it couldn't build the package without having the sources available, but okay, I was wrong.
maybe I'll try to run one command at a time from that script to see what I need to do

afaiui, (which i don't really) this sort of thing (kernel modules) is handled by dkms(dynamic kernel modules system) in arch and artix..
how this would work with modules(xzm), i not sure..
would have thought that virtualbox would pull dkms as a dep via VIRTUALBOX-HOST-MODULES, but maybe not..
this post : Nemesis 2023 (Post by Porcino #94697) suggests it could be possible..

Thanks, as I was saying I have it on hold to try running brokenman's script one line at a time to see if I understand how it creates the virtualbox module and see if there is anything to change.
Unfortunately I am piling up too many things to do and it's all overlapping

I want to report this appimage to anyone who is experiencing the same problem as me.
On my pc unfortunately it can't work because my processor is outside the minimum requirements for the KVM version, so I can't assure that it works.