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New virtualization around... And GPL'ed
01/15/07 16:50 , Categories: gentoo Okay, today there was a nice announcement on heise... "Open-source competitor takes on VMware and Co."
So we have an open-source virtualizer now? Yes we do 
The test on the page showed that it's only a bit slower compared to the other mentioned virtualizer, so I gave it a run and it worked okay from the first moment. Stats indicated that there were some binaries around but we don't like binaries if we can get the source, right? 
I've put a masked live ebuild in the tree and in fact we're the first distro that has virtualbox in the official repository. So give it a run if you want to see the power of open source
There are good docs available on the homepage but if everything fails, you can stop by in #vbox on freenode (upstream irc channel)
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I have some comments for your ebuild:
- Support use "debug" affecting configure and kmk parameters and the path of the compiled stuff
- Do not pull everything from svn. E.g. in tools/ there is stuff for darwin, OS/2 etc. which is not required on x86.
- Is there a reason to put VirtualBox into /opt ?
Greetings,
Thomas
Should be doable, would you mind providing a patch for the ebuild? :)
> Do not pull everything from svn. E.g. in tools/ there is stuff for darwin, OS/2 etc. which is not required on x86.
subversion.eclass doesn't support excluding parts (yet)
> Is there a reason to put VirtualBox into /opt ?
Upstream said to do so as it would be easier for them to debug their stuff and if I got it right, the thing is not ready yet for integrating it properly into /usr yet. But same as above, if you have a working case, I'd be happy to hear about it :)
Greetings,
Thomas
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