Hi,
to run Windows 11 as Virtualbox guest I build Virtualbox < version 7.
My current installed virtualbox was build against python 3.10.10-1.
Today building against python 3.11.3-1 failed with "Checking for Python
support: ** Python not found!".
I can still start a Windows 11 guest with virtualbox build against
python 3.10.10-1 on the machine that is updated to python 3.11.3-1.
However, the situation threatens to become more serious.
• rocketmouse@archlinux /.tmp/virtualbox-epoch1-6.1.40
$ pacman -Q python
python 3.11.3-1
• rocketmouse@archlinux /.tmp/virtualbox-epoch1-6.1.40
$ grep SUPPYTHONLIBS= chroot/rocketmouse/build/virtualbox/src/VirtualBox-6.1.40/configure
SUPPYTHONLIBS="python2.7 python2.6 python3.1 python3.2 python3.3 python3.4 python3.4m python3.5 python3.5m python3.6 python3.6m python3.7 python3.7m python3.8 python3.8m python3.9 python3.9m python3.10 python3.10m"
• rocketmouse@archlinux /.tmp/virtualbox-epoch1-6.1.40
$ grep " python (" /var/log/pacman.log | tail -1
[2023-05-04T01:05:49+0200] [ALPM] upgraded python (3.10.10-1 -> 3.11.3-1)
• rocketmouse@archlinux /.tmp/virtualbox-epoch1-6.1.40
$ pacman -Q virtualbox
virtualbox 1:6.1.40-708.1
I want to build virtualbox 1:6.1.40-708.2 against latest version of
python. Maybe I don't need to do this, but soon or later I at least need
to build against another dependency and then python is involved, too.
Perhaps just adding python3.11 to configure's SUPPYTHONLIBS already does
the job to build virtualbox, without fixing something else. If so, the
end of building virtualbox < version 7 to run Windows 11 guests is still
close.
What are you doing to run a Windows 11 guest?
Regards,
Ralf
