VirtualBox headless inside a Jail?

[minimike]

Hi

I don't know if it's possible, so why I'm asking. It is possible to run VirtualBox inside a jail? For networking I could give VIMAGE a try. But I am not sure if I need more.

Kind regards,
Darko.

 

[da1]

Haven't tried it myself but don't see any reason why not.

 

[tty23]

Hi minimike,

I want to try the same. Did you succeed?

Are there any pitfalls to avoid?

Thanks

Johannes

 

[kalw]

Hi there,

Not quite clean but post mortem here are the steps used to make it work


On the jail host :

* make vbox kernel module : %make -C /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod install clean

* load it : %/usr/local/etc/rc.d/vboxnet start

* mount src dir used to build module on jail used : %mount -t nullfs /usr/src /path/to/my/jail/basejail/usr/src

* allow sysv : %echo "jail_sysvipc_allow=\"YES\"" | tee -a /etc/rc.conf

* unhide devices needed by vbox on jail :
%diff /usr/src/etc/defaults/devfs.rules /etc/defaults/devfs.rules
34a35,36
> add path vboxdrv0 unhide
> add path vboxnetctl unhide

* start or restart jail .

In the jail :

* edit virtualbox-ose Makefile to avoid the build of module by commenting the RUN_DEPENDS line

* build vbox : make -C /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose install clean