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I can't seem to find any documentation on the subject. I'm working on putting together a linux install for a fairly "dirty" environment. Best practice there would be a statically compiled kernel with no module support. I can already do the customizations to strip out unnecessary drivers/etc to get the performance and disable module support. Does anyone have a link or any ideas on how to get the Oracle Virtualbox module (not the OSE one, I need USB passthrough) compiled in?

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  • Did you accomplished that ? I was on that too, almost done, but got problems
    – daisy
    Commented Aug 3, 2012 at 6:46

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The vboxdrv driver is a third party kernel component. It is a typical practice to create such drivers in the form of loadable modules. Since it is created by the Oracle dev team, they are the ones to decide on the form of the driver and you'd need to ask them for a kernel patch that would provide a built-in driver.

I seriously doubt they do provide this, nor that they would see it worth the effort to create such version of the driver. That's because hardly anyone would benefit from a built-in version, because it requires much more complicated building procedure (must be done together building the whole kernel, which has to be patched beforehand). For the dev team, it is also easier to maintain a module version.

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  • thanks for the response. this is kind of what I'm afraid of. i'm looking at a horribly hackish solution at the moment.
    – RobotHumans
    Commented Nov 13, 2011 at 20:53
  • Just curious: you mean converting the module version into a built-in driver on your own? I'd guess that might be the only way... If you have the skill.
    – jankes
    Commented Nov 13, 2011 at 21:07
  • It would be stupid hackish, but if you did something silly like instead of disabling module support...modifying the function to something else and instead of pointing to a file, putting the module in the kernel as a resource type of thing. or even adding a hash check for modules before they load. just something other than naked module support
    – RobotHumans
    Commented Nov 14, 2011 at 3:37

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