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diff --git a/system/virtualbox/README b/system/virtualbox/README index f8a9c427e8..9d3e7f6171 100644 --- a/system/virtualbox/README +++ b/system/virtualbox/README @@ -1,21 +1,14 @@ VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE) is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. -By default VirtualBox will be compiled with hardening enabled. That -means all binaries will be run suid root, which is the default -behaviour of upstream packages. However, you are still able -to disable this by passing HARDENING=no to the script. - You have to create a vboxusers group, e.g. "groupadd -g 215 vboxusers" and make your user a member of that group. -To compile a headless virtualbox pass HEADLESS=yes to the script. - To enable the webservice pass WEBSERVICE=yes to the script. This will require gsoap as optional dependency. If you want to build the java bindings, pass JAVA=yes to the script. -This will require jdk as optional dependency. +This will require zulu-openjdk8 as optional dependency. On x86_64, this by default builds without software virtualization. This means you need hardware virtualization in order to run 32bit guests on @@ -27,3 +20,6 @@ stock x86_64 system. This switch has no effect on x86 systems. If you want to attach VirtualBox to a VDE network you will need vde2. See README.SLACKWARE for some setup notes. + +Note to 32-bit users: VirtualBox no longer supports 32-bit x86, as of +version 6.0. |