virtualbox

Description:Family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise and home use
Homepage:https://www.virtualbox.org/
Location:Portage
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USE flags

  • alsa - Add support for media-libs/alsa-lib (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture)
  • dbus - Enable dbus support for anything that needs it (gpsd, gnomemeeting, etc)
  • debug - Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces
  • dist-kernel - Enable subslot rebuilds on Distribution Kernel upgrades
  • doc - Add extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc). It is recommended to enable per package instead of globally
  • dtrace - Install dtrace Extension Pack
  • gui - Enable support for a graphical user interface
  • headless - Build without any graphic frontend
  • java - Add support for Java
  • lvm - Build VBoxVolInfo that needs devicemapper from sys-fs/lvm2.
  • modules-sign - Cryptographically sign installed kernel modules (requires CONFIG_MODULE_SIG=y in the kernel)
  • nls - Add Native Language Support (using gettext - GNU locale utilities)
  • opengl - Add support for OpenGL (3D graphics)
  • opus - Enable Opus audio codec support
  • pam - Add support for PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) - DANGEROUS to arbitrarily flip
  • pax-kernel - Apply patch needed for pax enabled kernels.
  • pch - Enable precompiled header support for faster compilation at the expense of disk space and memory (>=sys-devel/gcc-3.4 only)
  • pulseaudio - Add sound server support via media-libs/libpulse (may be PulseAudio or PipeWire)
  • python - Add optional support/bindings for the Python language
  • python_single_target_python3_10 - Build for Python 3.10 only
  • python_single_target_python3_11 - Build for Python 3.11 only
  • python_single_target_python3_12 - Build for Python 3.12 only
  • python_single_target_python3_9 - Build for Python 3.9 only
  • qt5 - Add support for the Qt 5 application and UI framework
  • sdk - Enable building of SDK
  • sdl - Add support for Simple Direct Layer (media library)
  • strip - Allow symbol stripping to be performed by the ebuild for special files
  • udev - Controls installation of special USB udev rules.
  • vboxwebsrv - Build and install the VirtualBox webservice
  • vde - Support for VDE networking via net-misc/vde
  • vnc - Enable VNC (remote desktop viewer) support

Security Advisory

Date Severity Title
almost 2 years high Oracle VirtualBox: Multiple Vulnerabilities
about 2 years high Oracle VirtualBox: Multiple Vulnerabilities
almost 4 years normal VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities
almost 4 years normal VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities
over 4 years normal VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities
over 6 years normal VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities
almost 7 years high VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities
over 7 years high VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities
almost 8 years normal VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities
almost 11 years high VirtualBox: Multiple Vulnerabilities
over 12 years normal VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities

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