Talk:VirtualBox

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[edit] Why is libstdc 3.3 required?

When I download the binary from Sun site it installs itself and works great without any stdlibc 3.3 installed on my machine. So why on earth the binary Gentoo VirtualBox 3.x package requires libstdc 3.3? Filed a bug, will see what they say: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286163

[edit] I removed the requirement for <gcc4.3

The wiki said <gcc4.3 had to be installed and configured. However - looking through the issue queue of virtualbox I found that it was already sorted out way back in 2009.

See http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/936 for more details

[edit] Old versions

Since there is no longer any version of VirtualBox older than 3.0.12 in the portage tree, suggest that we remove the stuff specifically pertaining to older versions (there's quite a bit of it).