On 06/01/2010 02:35 PM, Joe Auty wrote:
> I came up with this set of instructions mostly for myself, but feel
> free to correct anything that is mistaken here, pass them on, whatever:
>
> http://www.netmusician.org/2010/06/compilevirtualboxose/
>
Instead of your current instructions you could just do:

cd VirtualBoxSources;
vi Config.kmk
Uncomment #VBOX_WITH_VNC = 1 to just VBOX_WITH_VNC = 1

save and close and then run:

dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc
dpkg -i virtualbox_packagename.deb

This would eliminate your whole process there and it automatically
modprobe's all the modules.

Then for healthy concern, I wouldn't give /dev/vboxdrv read/write access
for the current user but instead do:

sudo usermod -G vboxusers -a `whoami`

This adds the current user (non-root) to the vboxusers group which owns
vboxdrv and other things.

Another benefit of building the package is that the vbox devs provide
the debian build process and also, the binaries are in the correct
paths, not in out/linux.x86/release/bin but like in /usr/bin/, for instance.

Just a thought.
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