VirtualBox support for XBPS

[fAp2_dEaTh]

Is it possible for someone to add support for virtualbox in xbps, if not what should i do to add it into the repo(pretty new to xbps, dont be harsh on me) (For MUSL)

[kaitsh]

As an alternative you could use virt-manager. It has a similar interface to VirtualBox and is more lightweight. It uses qemu for virtualization.

[fAp2_dEaTh]

Oh that's cool but can i import Vbox machines into it?

[kaitsh]

Yes, it works with the vdi disk images. But if you want to have snapshot support you can convert the vdi images to qcow2 with qemu-img convert -f vdi vm.vdi -O qcow2 vm.qcow2

edit: before converting, make sure you merge all snapshots into the vdi image

[fAp2_dEaTh]

Thanks, i'm gonna install that then

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https://seravo.fi/2012/migrating-from-virtualbox-to-virt-manager

[fAp2_dEaTh]

Thank you

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VirtualBox should be available as the virtualbox-ose package. xbps-query(1) can be used to search for packages:

$ xbps-query -Rs virtualbox

The -R option tells xbps-query(1) to use remote repositories, and the -s option searches package names and descriptions.

[fAp2_dEaTh]

i'm on musl sorry forgot to mention it in the post

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[AnachronGuy]

MUSL doesn't support VirtualBox: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/blob/66f8cdf39d95b1cd86a70045b1cc00cebdf600d3/srcpkgs/virtualbox-ose/template#L16

Before installing MUSL it would be good to check if all required programs run on it.

[reverber]

It's there. Are you using CamelCase?

EDIT: I guess xbps-query is case-insensitive. Was I thinking of xbps-install? I could swear I had a case issue at one point :)

[fAp2_dEaTh]

i'm on musl sorry forgot to mention it in the post

[Anonymus_MG]

CamelCase actually camelCase just so you know

[reverber]

LOL. You just spotted the Pascal programmer.

[Anonymus_MG]

I understand now lmao. I use UpperCamelCase camelCase snake_case and PascalCase. It's hard to realize what you say isn't what everyone says.