This is the way I build VirtualBox OSE from SVN and install. Notice that this is the hardened version and must be installed before it will work.
If you want to build using the "./configure --disable-hardening" you will need to add additional symlinks indicated in the VirtualBox master build instructions above.
Install Fedora-14 x86_64
- If you install on metal you will have a fully functional VirtualBox when finished
- If you install Fedora-14 in a Virtual Machine, it will work up to the actual creation of a Virtual Machine
Note: To make my life easier I add my user name to the sudoers list. That way I don't need to go in and out of sessions. If you don't want to use sudo replace the steps by using su.
Next I disable SeLinux. (If you decide to leave it on the compile time seems longer and VirtualBox has a problem running with it on (in my environment anyway).
Make sure that Fedora is fully updated
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sudo yum updateNext install the necessary packages to install the guest additions (ONLY if you are running Fedora in a Virtual Machine).
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sudo yum install binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel
Install necessary packages to be able to build VirtualBox OSE from SVN
Group Packages
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sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries"Code: Select all
sudo yum install dev86 iasl qt4-devel pulseaudio-libs-devel glibc-devel.i686 libgcc.i686 texlive-texmf-latex java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel zlib-static glibc-static libstdc++.i686 libxslt-devel libIDL-devel SDL-devel libXmu-devel libstdc++-static wgetCode: Select all
sudo yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel device-mapper-devel Create a file called LocalConfig.kmk in the top level build folder and add the absolute path to your java package in the LocalConfig.kmk See example below.
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VBOX_JAVA_HOME := /usr/lib64/jvm/java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0Code: Select all
cd /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/
mkdir bera
cd bera/
wget http://www.tug.org/texlive/devsrc/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/bera/beramono.sty
texhashNote: F19 has change even more to the point I had to install the full package of Texlive to get the Docs to build. Use yum install texlive* but be warned this is around 1.5GB in size. You can disable the building of the Docs and not need texlive at all by putting VBOX_WITH_DOCS= in your LocalConfig.kmk
Since Fedora does not provide makeself I use the makeself from Debian. You need makeself and makeself-header. If you get makeself from other sources it may be called makeself.sh and you will either need to rename it or symlink the name to makeself
install makeself in /usr/bin and makeself-header in /usr/share/makeself (you need to create the makeself folder)
[Exit sudo]
Create your build environment. Easiest way is to use your home folder.
mkdir ~/virtualbox
Now you are ready to try to compile VirtualBox from SVN
- cd ~/virtualbox
svn co http://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk vbox
cd vbox
./configure
source ./env.sh
kmk all
cd ~/virtualbox/vbox/out/linux.amd64/release/bin/src
make
sudo make install
cd ~/virtualbox/vbox/src/VBox
kmk packing
cp ~/virtualbox/vbox/out/linux.amd64/release/bin/VirtualBox-4.*.*_OSE-r*.run ~/
cd ~/
sudo ./VirtualBox-4.*.*_OSE-r*.run install
sudo usermod -aG vboxusers <your username>
Run VirtualBox!
Follow up note: I decided to leave the LocalConfig.kmk file alone and install VirtualBox to the /opt folder. It works for me but if you want it installed in a different location you will need to change it in the LocalConfig.kmk file. (instructions are in the VirtualBox master build instructions)
Note: This compiles a complete for distribution build that is installable including the guest additions for your build and can use all of the VirtualBox benefits. If you do not want to install features you need to modify it to your environment as that is not the purpose of this tutorial.