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Bug 924123 - app-emulation/virtualbox-kvm: New package request for KVM backend for app-emulation/virtualbox
Summary: app-emulation/virtualbox-kvm: New package request for KVM backend for app-emu...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Default Assignee for New Packages
URL: https://github.com/cyberus-technology...
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Keywords: PullRequest
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2024-02-08 19:29 UTC by Mark
Modified: 2024-02-10 16:31 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Mark 2024-02-08 19:29:46 UTC 
There is a new backend for app-emulation/virtualbox on
https://github.com/cyberus-technology/virtualbox-kvm
It uses KVM instead of the VirtualBox kernel module from app-emulation/virtualbox-modules.
Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2024-02-10 16:31:26 UTC 
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=aa9637bdc0b443d18bd254f78dbdc19d46ee553f

commit aa9637bdc0b443d18bd254f78dbdc19d46ee553f
Author:     Viorel Munteanu <ceamac@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2024-02-10 09:30:58 +0000
Commit:     Viorel Munteanu <ceamac@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2024-02-10 16:30:47 +0000

    app-emulation/virtualbox-kvm: new package, add 7.0.14_pre20240208, 9999
    
    This is a prerelease, add it unkeyworded.  Not production ready.
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/924123
    Signed-off-by: Viorel Munteanu <ceamac@gentoo.org>

 app-emulation/virtualbox-kvm/Manifest              |   3 +
 .../files/050_virtualbox-5.2.8-nopie.patch         | 147 ++++
 .../virtualbox-kvm/files/10-virtualbox.rules       |   7 +
 .../virtualbox-kvm/files/vboxwebsrv-confd          |  19 +
 .../virtualbox-kvm/files/vboxwebsrv-initd          |  21 +
 .../virtualbox-kvm/files/virtualbox-4-config       |   1 +
 .../virtualbox-kvm/files/virtualbox-5-localconfig  |  47 ++
 ...tualbox-7.0.8-disable-rebuild-iPxeBiosBin.patch |  18 +
 .../virtualbox-kvm/files/virtualbox-ose-6-wrapper  | 119 ++++
 .../files/virtualbox-vboxusb_tmpfilesd             |   1 +
 app-emulation/virtualbox-kvm/metadata.xml          |  19 +
 .../virtualbox-kvm-7.0.14_pre20240208.ebuild       | 758 +++++++++++++++++++++
 .../virtualbox-kvm/virtualbox-kvm-9999.ebuild      | 758 +++++++++++++++++++++
 13 files changed, 1918 insertions(+)