[vbox-dev] Something wrong with testcases on x86-64

manio manio at skyboo.net
Wed Sep 1 13:12:11 GMT 2010


On 09/01/2010 03:02 PM, Frank Mehnert wrote:

> Because VirtualBox can execute both 32-bit guests and 64-bit guests.
> The tests are required to check the integrity of the data structures
> in a 32-bit context, therefore we need to execute these tests as 32-bit
> binaries.
>
> Right now I don't know if it is sufficient to omit these tests from building
> but we will not do that by default as 64-bit-only systems are very rare. If
> you really want to build a 64-bit only VBox then add
>
>    VBOX_WITH_RAW_MODE=
>
> to your LocalConfig.kmk in the VBox root directory.

ok - now it's all clear to me
thank you for your time resolving this issue

regards,
-- 
Mariusz Białończyk
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