Changes between Version 11 and Version 12 of Mac OS X build instructions

Timestamp:

Feb 23, 2007 5:59:25 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

Achim Hasenmueller

Comment:

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Mac OS X build instructions

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 == Running !VirtualBox ==
 
-As mentioned elsewhere, the Mac OS X port of !VirtualBox is work in progress. Only the very basic GUI (VBoxBFE) is available and because the supporting kernel extension ([source:trunk/src/VBox/HostDrivers/Support]) isn't ported yet, the guest performance is quite terrible.
+As mentioned elsewhere, the Mac OS X port of !VirtualBox is work in progress. Things might therefore not work as expected and break at random times.
 
- 1. !VirtualBox must be instructed not to try use the missing kernel extension.
+ 1. Load the kernel extension module. This can be found in `out/darwin.x86/release/dist` along with a small script (`load.sh`) to load it. Execute and make sure the module loads successfully. If for some reason, you want to run !VirtualBox without the module, this is how it works (be warned, it will be extremely slow):
 {{{
 export VBOX_SUPLIB_FAKE="fake"