Enable legacy fbdev support for your modesetting driver Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) -> Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet support Intel ESB, ICH, PIIX3, PIIX4 PATA/SATA support ATA SFF support (for legacy IDE and PATA) Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers (libata) -> KERNEL Support for VirtualBox hardware Device Drivers -> It is recommended to enable per package instead of globallyīuild VBoxVolInfo that needs devicemapper from sys-fs/lvm2.Īdd support for PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)DANGEROUS to arbitrarily flipĪpply patch needed for pax enabled kernels.Įnable precompiled header support for faster compilation at the expense of disk space and memory (>=sys-devel/gcc-3.4 only)Īdd optional support/bindings for the Python languageĪdd support for the Qt 5 application and UI frameworkĪdd support for Simple Direct Layer (media library)Ĭontrols installation of special USB udev rules.īuild and install the VirtualBox webserviceĮnable VNC (remote desktop viewer) support

If you want to get meaningful backtraces see Īdd extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc). VirtualBox host requires following kernel configuration options:Īdd support for media-libs/alsa-lib (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture)Įnable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. These drivers provide smoother operation with the Host operating system compared to the standard drivers installed by the Guest operating system. Possible alternative operating systems include Microsoft Windows, Solaris, BSD, Debian, Ubuntu, etc.ĭrivers for the guest operating system.

The operating system to be installed or currently installed inside the VirtualBox emulation environment. For Gentoo users the host operating system would be Gentoo Linux Most likely the physical hardware present in the room.

5.9 Kernel Panic when suspending the HOST while Virtualbox is running.

5.8 Nonexistent host networking interface, named 'vboxnet0'.

5.4 Host key failing to operate in the virtual machine.

5.3 virtualbox-modules permission denied errors.

3.2 Enable port forwarding to guest machines.

2.6 VirtualBox shared folders in a Gentoo guest.

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