* - Tong - mlist4suntong@yahoo.com [20070820 02:08]:
I remember while browsing planet.grml.org the other day, I saw one grml developer (mika, was it you?) highly praised the VirtualBox, stating that it is even faster than VMware. This get me very excited. Can someone give me some 101 introduction to VirtualBox, because I found most VirtualBox articles are for Ubuntu.
Yes, this was me.
Moreover, seems VirtualBox need to be compiled from source [1]. Can we have a VirtualBox package in grml?
Also "before installing VirtualBox, your Linux OS has to satisfy some software requirements: in particular, you will need libxalan-c, libxerces-s and version 5 of libstdc++. Unfortunately, these packages are found under different names in the repositories of various Linux distributions so installing them will most likely cause problems" [2]. Can we straight things up in grml as well?
It's pretty simple to get VirtualBox running on grml. :)
Just add the following line to your sources.list:
# virtualbox: deb http://www.virtualbox.org/debian etch non-free
Then run 'au ; ati virtualbox' and everything else should run pretty straight forward (assuming you have the kernel-headers available on your system - that's the default for your grml system - so compiling the kernel module by the Debian package works).
That's it. :)
regards, -mika-