Virtual Box 5.0 in Portage!

I guess just in time for Windows 10???

vb5

emerge –unmerge -p virtualbox

Same old catch if you want the BIOS compiled then Open Watcom is needed.  To be specific, I have had to use Open Watcom 1.9.  The emerge output if OW is not found:

>>> Source prepared.
>>> Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-5.0.0/work/VirtualBox-5.0.0 …
Checking for environment: Determined build machine: linux.amd64, target machine: linux.amd64, OK.
Checking for kBuild: found, OK.
Checking for gcc: found version 4.8.4, OK.
Checking for Open Watcom:
** Open Watcom was not found!
Checking for iasl: found version 20130117, OK.
Checking for xslt: found, OK.

After installing Open Watcom and “export WATCOM=/usr//bin/watcom19”, running emerge should result in:

>>> Source prepared.
>>> Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-5.0.0/work/VirtualBox-5.0.0 …
Checking for environment: Determined build machine: linux.amd64, target machine: linux.amd64, OK.
Checking for kBuild: found, OK.
Checking for gcc: found version 4.8.4, OK.
Checking for Open Watcom: found version 1.9, OK.
Checking for iasl: found version 20130117, OK.
Checking for xslt: found, OK.

Also had to “emerge -v virtualbox-extpack-oracle app-emulation/virtualbox-additions” separately.

 

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