I wanted to post my notes on this for anyone else trying to compile Virtualbox with virtualbox-kvm from source on a modern Linux OS. The Error: I was getting a unit32_t error and never could figure out what it was when I started the compile. 7.2.6/src/VBox/Runtime/common/misc/buildconfig.cpp kBuild: Compiling RuntimeBldProg - /opt/virtualbox/VirtualBox-7.2...
Compiling Virtualbox KVM on Linux Without Additions
Even though vbox-kvm hasn’t really be updated recently, it still works. I still find it to be the fastest I’ve worked with on linux hosts. The issue for the last few virtualbox releases though as been in compiling from source, you have to omit guest additions from the config.kmk Get all the dependencies in order on your host machine and follow the instructions from the vbox-kvm...