Virtualbox on Freebsd

Paul Schmehl pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com
Thu Mar 4 19:44:21 UTC 2010


I'm trying to build it from ports right now and running into all sorts of 
issues with qt4 stuff.

--On Wednesday, March 03, 2010 20:50:32 -0500 Glen Barber 
<glen.j.barber at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Chris Hill wrote:
>> On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Thomas Lawrence wrote:
>>
>> >   Hello Guys and Gals,
>> >   Can you clear something up for me.
>> >   Is it possible to install the closed source version of Virtualbox on
>> >   Freebsd8.
>>
>> Glen Barber posted this...
>>
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg217302.html
>>
>> ...last summer. I have not tried it, just saying it's there.
>>
>
> It is a (horribly outdated) pkg_add(1) installer.  I haven't had a chance
> to update it yet; hopefully this weekend now that my attention has been
> drawn to it.
>
> For the record, it is not the closed-source version.  It is
> emulators/virtualbox before it was repocopied to
> emulators/virtualbox-ose-*.
>
> Regards,



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