Sun Microsystems VIRTUALBOX VERSION 3.1.0_BETA2 - Manual (Page 34)

2 Installation details
2.2.2 Uninstallation
To uninstall VirtualBox, open the disk image (dmg) file again and double-click on the
uninstall icon contained therein.
2.2.3 Unattended installation
To perform a non-interactive installation of VirtualBox you can use the command line
version of the installer application.
Mount the disk image (dmg) file as described in the normal installation. Then open
a terminal session and execute:
sudo installer -pkg /Volumes/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.mpkg \
-target /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD
2.3 Installing on Linux hosts
2.3.1 Prerequisites
For the various versions of Linux that we support as host operating systems, please
refer to chapter
1.4 , Supported host operating systems , page 14 .
You will need to install the following packages on your Linux system before starting
the installation (some systems will do this for you automatically when you install
VirtualBox):
• Qt 4.4.0 or higher;
• SDL 1.2.7 or higher (this graphics library is typically called libsdl or similar).
Note: To be precise, these packages are only required if you want to run the
VirtualBox graphical user interfaces. In particular, VirtualBox, our main
graphical user interface, requires both Qt and SDL; VBoxSDL, our simplified
GUI, requires only SDL. By contrast, if you only want to run the headless
VRDP server that comes with VirtualBox, neither Qt nor SDL are required.
2.3.2 The VirtualBox kernel module
VirtualBox uses a special kernel module to perform physical memory allocation and to
gain control of the processor for guest system execution. Without this kernel module,
you will still be able to work with virtual machines in the configuration interface, but
you will not be able to start any virtual machines.
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