[vbox-dev] A Dockerfile for building VirtualBox

[Jon Seymour]

G'day,

This might be interesting to some people - a Dockerfile that will
builds the VirtualBox sources within a Docker container which contains
Ubuntu 14.04 and all the required build dependencies.

https://github.com/jonseymour/vbox-build

Suggested improvements can be listed here or as a github issue.

Regards,

jon seymour.

[Andreas Löffler]

Hi Jon,

cool stuff! I already played around with Docker a bit (and built some
Dockerfiles myself) -- thanks for letting us know!

Andreas

Post by Jon Seymour
G'day,
This might be interesting to some people - a Dockerfile that will
builds the VirtualBox sources within a Docker container which contains
Ubuntu 14.04 and all the required build dependencies.
https://github.com/jonseymour/vbox-build
Suggested improvements can be listed here or as a github issue.
Regards,
jon seymour.
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[Klaus Espenlaub]

Jon,

Post by Jon Seymour
G'day,
This might be interesting to some people - a Dockerfile that will
builds the VirtualBox sources within a Docker container which contains
Ubuntu 14.04 and all the required build dependencies.
https://github.com/jonseymour/vbox-build
Suggested improvements can be listed here or as a github issue.

Had a quick look (not very detailed), and generally it looks good.

Not terribly convinced that line 32 in the Dockerfile is the ideal solution:
RUN bash -c 'ln -sf $(cd /usr/src; ls -d linux-headers-*-generic | tail
-1) /usr/src/linux'

This looks very much like a hack for me. I can see that on a generic
build environment there's little point in depending on the running
kernel's version, but such symlinks can be causing other trouble.
Setting the KERN_DIR env variable sounds like the clean solution to me.

Klaus

Post by Jon Seymour
Regards,
jon seymour.