Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 22:56:16 -0300 From: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtualbox on 8.2 64-bit Message-ID: <201106062256.16152.lobo@bsd.com.br> In-Reply-To: <4DED7F72.8080603@midsummerdream.org> References: <4DED3F15.5060500@midsummerdream.org> <201106062213.45053.lobo@bsd.com.br> <4DED7F72.8080603@midsummerdream.org>
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On Monday 06 June 2011 22:31:30 Rob wrote: > On 6/6/11 8:13 PM, Mario Lobo wrote: > > On Monday 06 June 2011 17:56:53 Rob wrote: > >> I was attempting to install virtualbox on my 8.2-p2 64-bit system this > >> weekend, and hit a rather curious situation. The pre-packaged version > >> of virtualbox retrievable by pkg_add is 3.2.12 (which looks in > >> ports/amd64/packages-8.2-release). Poking around on the ftp server, I > >> see that packages-8.1-release also has a 3.x version, but > >> packages-8-stable has the latest 4.0.8. > >> > >> I went to look in ports, which contains 4.0.8, and build it myself but I > >> got an error saying I need to have the 32-bit libraries installed in > >> order to build virtualbox. > >> > >> So, my question is 2-fold: > >> 1) What is the reason the 64-bit pre-packaged version of virtualbox is > >> still at the 3.x version? Would there be a problem with installing the > >> packages (virtualbox and kernel module) from packages-8-stable? > >> > >> 2) How do I build virtualbox 4.0.8 on a 64-bit system w/o the 32-bit > >> libs. Is that possible? Searching around has produced old e-mail > >> threads indicating this was a problem as of 2 or so years ago with the > >> 3.x release. If it's not possible to build w/o the 32-bit libs, what do > >> I need to install? > >> > >> Rob > > > > You need to rebuild your kernel with > > > > options COMPAT_FREEBSD32 # Compatible with i386 binaries > > > > included. > > I'm running the stock 8.2 kernel. Is that option compiled into the > kernel? Where do I find the options that are enabled in the stock kernel? I believe the stock kernel follows the GENERIC conf file which DOES include the COMPAT_FREEBSD32 option but I'm not 100% sure. Maybe someone on the list could confirm that. > Also, does COMPAT_FREEBSD32 mean I don't need the 32-bit libs for > compilation, or that the kernel will run binaries compiled for 32-bit > systems? If the later, then I'll still need to install the 32-bit > version of the libraries in order to build, right? > > Rob You do need to compile the libraries as per my follow up post. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99% winblows FREE)
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