Hello All,

Finally both packages for virtualbox-kernel and virtualbox created and installed with no problems.
Everything is running fine now on Salix 15.0.

Thanks everyone for helping to address the issue.

Regards,
Antonio

Hello All,
As for what concerns the blocking point for iasl I solved installing the acpica package via slapt-get. Now the package is being compiled. I will report here about any further showstoppers.

Regards,
Antonio

Hello djemos,

Headed to the two Slackbuilds. Virtualbox-kernel package built correctly, whereas virtualbox package stopped during the making.
Here's the output:
Checking for environment: Determined build machine: linux.amd64, target machine: linux.amd64, OK.
Checking for kBuild: found, OK ...

Hello Didier,

Wiped completely previous installation and run the installer once again, but unfortunately the problem remains. I am wondering if this can be related to the fact that the installer I am using is too old for the kernel running on 15.0 (VirtualBox-6.0.14-133895-Linux_amd64). I will try ...

Hello Everyone,

Seems I am having troubles in running virtualbox under Salix 15.0 (fresh install 64bit).
System is complaining that vboxdrv module is missing

antonio@darkstar:~$ virtualbox
WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
available for the current ...

Hello All,
Kudos to Gapan and to all who contributed to make this achievement possible.
Salix 15.0 is definitely a stellar release.

Regards,
Antonio

Hello All,

Just to let you know that the Garr Repositories (IT) for Salix have moved to following path:

http://salix.mirror.garr.it/salix/

Pls amend entries in Reposetup.

rgds
Antonio

Gapan,

As usual, you got it right! It was just a matter of changing the setting of CPU operation into the BIOS and now the VM runs flawlessly. Even the 64 bit systems now appear on the drill down list of VM options.
Thanks a bunch, that made my day
Regards,
Antonio

Hello All,
As the title says I have Virtualbox 6.0.14 installed on Salix 14.2 64 bit.
The laptop I am using has
4 x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 540 @ 2.53GHz
and 4 Gigs of RAM, so it should be sufficient enough to host distros which don't have particular hardware requirements.
The weird thing is ...

Hello gaimei,

That's correct.I retrieved the .usb firmware file long ago from http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/gt68xx-backend/ : this has served me well for years since the manufacturer dropped driver support for windows back to the xp days (actually that was one of the reasons that made me ...