Howto | Build VirtualBox from Source
21 Mar 2009Download
Download Open Source Edition (OSE) from VirtualBox:
- http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Pre-requisites
Install the following pre-requisites:
# apt-get install gcc g++ bcc iasl xsltproc xalan libxalan110-dev uuid-dev zlib1g-dev libidl-dev libsdl1.2-dev libxcursor-dev libqt3-headers libqt3-mt-dev libasound2-dev libstdc++5 libhal-dev
Compile
# sudo su
# ./configure
# . env.sh << Note the space between the '.' and 'env'
# kmk all
Installation
# cd out/linux.x86/release/bin/src
# make
# make install
# cd ..
References
This document has been copied from the following, which you should read as your primary source.
- http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux%20build%20instructions
I also found the following (suitably adapted for Debian) to be most useful:
- http://www.howtoforge.com/virtualbox_ubuntu
Although I could not get subversion working from behind our proxy server, the source for 1.5.2 was downloadable at the above site.