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FS#15882 - [virtualbox-ose] support for x86-64

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Thijs Vermeir (lovebug356) - Monday, 10 August 2009, 09:38 GMT
Last edited by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Friday, 14 August 2009, 14:53 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category
Status Closed
Assigned To Ionut Biru (wonder)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Currently the virtualbox-ose package is only for i686. But I think there is no reason why this package (and the kernel modules) can't be working on x86-64, as there is upstream support for this.
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Closed by  Ionut Biru (wonder)
Friday, 14 August 2009, 14:53 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  report upstream to make a true 64 bit application.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Monday, 10 August 2009, 09:41 GMT
The reason is that x86_64 requires 32bit multilib packages, which Arch does not support officially.
I don't know if the situation changed in recent versions.
Maybe at least 64-bit virtualbox-ose-additions are possible.
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Monday, 10 August 2009, 10:11 GMT
like Roman said we need 32 bit multilib packages
here are those packages: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux%20build%20instructions

prof that we can't build it and is not a true 64 bit app

Checking for environment: Determined build machine: linux.amd64, target machine: linux.amd64, OK.
Checking for 32-bit support:
Cannot compile 32-bit applications (missing headers and/or libraries)!
Check the file /build/src/VirtualBox-3.0.4_OSE/configure.log for detailed error information.
fail!
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Monday, 10 August 2009, 11:58 GMT
AFAIR they require 32bit stuff for the builtin recompiler which is used to emulate some prohibited instructions when running without hardware virtualization support.

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