[ANN] VirtualBox 5.0.14 packages for Slackware 14.1 and -current
 

Hi,

I built some VirtualBox 5.0.14 packages for Slackware 14.1 and -current, 32-bit and 64-bit. They're all available in my MLED repos.

• You can use them even if you're running plain Slackware, not MLED.
• The virtualbox-* packages are in the [extras] repositories.
• Make sure to install 'acpica', since this is a dependency. It's available in the [desktop] repository.
• Create a 'vboxusers' group with GID 215 (for example) and add your user(s) to that group.

Cheers,

Niki

Is this the Oracle or OSE release?

There is no such thing as an OSE release anymore.

Source tarballs and additional packages come from this place:

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

I wanted to offer packages for these already for quite some time, but never really came around to it for multiple reasons. You doing it now is definitely much appreciated :)

You're welcome, the more so since I basically used your own SlackBuild scripts with only a handful of modifications.

Cheers,

The other Austrian in this forum :)

Niki, does Slackware 14.2 beta work well in the 4.3.* series of VirtualBox?

Yes, it does. The easiest solution for you would be to download the SlackBuild script from SlackBuilds.org, change the VERSION number from 4.3.24 to 4.3.34, edit the SlackBuild to use PulseAudio (there's a stanza for it), and then build it. You might also replace the i486 ARCH by i586.

I think we are talking about different things. My host is running Slackware64 14.1 (-multilib), I have installed VirtualBox (4.3.28) from the provided binaries. I saw some post (yours?) on Google plus that Slackware 14.2 had issues with the addons, when installed in a VirtualBox 4.3.* VM.

Is this so?

No, that post was not mine, and it looks like there's some wrong information in it. I'm not sure I understand what exactly it is you want to do.

Thanks for this. Unfortunately I get this when I try to start it up...

<code>Failed to create the VirtualBoxClient COM object

Callee RC:
NS_ERROR_FACTORY_NOT_REGISTERED (0x80040154)
</code>

I installed your packages on a stock X86_64 14.1 system. If I have to run multilib, then I'm going to have to pass and still thank you anyway for the work put into this for everyone.

Niki, I meant if Slack 14.2 beta installed in a VM 4.3.* has any issues with the guest addons. Anyway, obviously I misread something, so I will not flood this thread with my confused thoughts anymore. ;)

Ah OK, now I understand. The answer is yes, meaning Slackware 14.2 beta1 has indeed some issues when installed as a guest system in VirtualBox 4.3.34. When I tried to install the Guest Additions, I got an "Unknown X Server version" error and couldn't configure X correctly. Hence my motivation to upgrade 4.3.34 to 5.0.14, which works perfectly.

Cheers,

Niki

On a 64-bit system, Multilib is a requirement to run VirtualBox.

Hello,

I might be wrong, but, according to this thread, this error is due to the lack of libvpx (shipped with -current but not with 14.1), or an outdated version of this library. Furthermore, by default, virtualbox.slackbuild configures virtualbox with libvpx support enabled :
Anyway, the code above should be :
or

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