#INSTALL MAC OS FOR VIRTUALBOX MAC OS X#
#INSTALL MAC OS FOR VIRTUALBOX INSTALL#

If you see something like the following error when starting VirtualBox you need to change the used libraries to use absolute paths. Sudo chmod u+s /Applications/OpenSource/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxNetDHCPДЄnother requirement of hardening is that every path component of the parent directory of VirtualBox.app/ is owned by root and not world writable. Sudo chmod u+s /Applications/OpenSource/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxNetAdpCtl Sudo chmod u+s /Applications/OpenSource/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxHeadless Sudo chmod u+s /Applications/OpenSource/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VirtualBoxVM Sudo chmod u+s /Applications/OpenSource/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VirtualBox

Sudo chown -R root:admin /Applications/OpenSource/VirtualBox.app/ Now make sure that the setuid stubs have the correct permissions: There isn't any support for installing VirtualBox into a target directory.

#INSTALL MAC OS FOR VIRTUALBOX INSTALL#

Next rebuild VirtualBox and install it into /Applications/OpenSource/. You can prevent that by adding the following to LocalConfig.kmk: Starting with VirtualBox 4.1, extra debug symbols are created. It may also make sense to disable some of the development only stuff, like test cases. VBOX_PATH_APP_DOCS = '/Applications/OpenSource/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS' VBOX_PATH_SHARED_LIBS = '/Applications/OpenSource/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS' VBOX_PATH_APP_PRIVATE_ARCH = '/Applications/OpenSource/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS' VBOX_PATH_APP_PRIVATE = '/Applications/OpenSource/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS' If you like to change that, say into /Applications/OpenSource/VirtualBox.app/, you need to add the following to the LocalConfig.kmk: The default install directory of VirtualBox is /Applications/VirtualBox.app/. Hardening needs some additional configuration and post-build steps. Never disable hardening (see previous section) when creating packages for redistribution.

Enter out/darwin.x86/release/dist/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/.

Execute and make sure the modules loads successfully. These can be found in out/darwin.x86/release/dist along with a small script ( loadall.sh) to load them.

Load all the kernel extension modules.

The default is to a release build, should you wish to do a debug or profile build add BUILD_TYPE=debug or BUILD_TYPE=profile as argument to kmk or export it as an environment variable in your shell.

Whenever you want to build VirtualBox, you have to open a shell and source the generated environment setup script env.sh, i.e.

This step only has to be done once (if something changes in your build tool setup, you might have to repeat it but keep in mind that both output files will be overwritten).

Also, it will create an environment setup script called env.sh. If it finds everything it needs, it will create a file called !AutoConfig.kmk containing paths to the various tools on your system. You can manually set the target architecture with -target-arch=x86 or amd64, if some architecture related problems occur. Change to the root directory of the sources and execute the configure script:.If you are running 10.10 (Yosemite) there is a boot-args option for allowing the loading of unsigned kexts. Loading self-built kernel extensions (kexts) on more recent OS X may require changes to the system config unless you have a kext signing certificate and is running 10.14 (High Sierra) or earlier.ДЇor 10.11 (El Capitan) and later boot to the recovery partition and either enabling loading of unsigned kexts:ДЇor 10.15 (Catalina) and later you also need to disable the reboot requirement (also from recovery partition):.Sudo port install libidl acpica yasm subversion doxygen texlive texlive-latex-extra texlive-fonts-extra x86_64-elf-gccДoxygen, texlive* and x86_64-elf-gcc are optional (first two for documentation, latter for the validation kit). Until recently the official builds were done using Xcode 6.2 (you may use the tools/darwin.amd64/bin/ script to 'install' the necessary bits on later OS X versions).ДЄfter installing MacPorts, do not forget to make sure the following two lines are in your ~/.profile or ~/.zprofile file and actually loaded in the shell you're using:Д®xport PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATHД®xport MANPATH=/opt/local/share/man:$MANPATH

#INSTALL MAC OS FOR VIRTUALBOX MAC OS X#

Xcode matching your Mac OS X version ( ).

10.10.x (Yosemite) or later running on Intel hardware (PowerPC hardware is not supported nor is building an X11 variant).

Mac OS X build instructions Prerequisites on Mac OS X

Install mac os for virtualbox