First steps trying to build VirtualBox. I haven't finished.

I left before trying to install and run the files compiled.

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=13863

pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/2.1.2.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, iasl, dev86, libxslt, libxml2, libX11, xproto, libXext, libXcursor, qt3, qt4, libIDL, SDL, hal, libcap, zlib, libpng, glib, kernel}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "virtualbox-2.1.2";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/2.1.2/VirtualBox-2.1.2-OSE.tar.bz2;
+    sha256 = "d3c1ae8ed7594094aaf8496204c5415479e1943e5b5179c5baae8a66885362de";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [iasl dev86 libxslt libxml2 xproto libX11 libXext libXcursor qt3 qt4 libIDL SDL hal libcap glib kernel];
+
+  patchPhase = "
+    set -x
+    MODULES_BUILD_DIR=`echo ${kernel}/lib/modules/*/build`
+    sed -e 's@/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build@'$MODULES_BUILD_DIR@ \\
+        -i configure
+    ls kBuild/bin/linux.x86/k* tools/linux.x86/bin/* | xargs -n 1 patchelf --set-interpreter ${stdenv.glibc}/lib/ld-linux.so.2 
+    export USER=nix
+    set +x
+  ";
+
+  configurePhase = ''
+    # It wants the qt utils from qt3, and it takes them from QTDIR
+    export QTDIR=${qt3}
+    ./configure --with-qt-dir=${qt3} --with-qt4-dir=${qt4} --disable-python --disable-alsa --disable-pulse --disable-hardening
+    sed -e 's@PKG_CONFIG_PATH=.*@PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${libIDL}/lib/pkgconfig:${glib}/lib/pkgconfig ${libIDL}/bin/libIDL-config-2@' \
+        -i AutoConfig.kmk
+    sed -e 's@arch/x86/@@' \
+        -i Config.kmk
+    cat >> AutoConfig.kmk << END_PATHS
+    VBOX_PATH_APP_PRIVATE := $out
+    VBOX_PATH_APP_DOCS := $out/doc
+    END_PATHS
+  '';
+
+  buildPhase = "
+    source env.sh
+    kmk
+  ";
+    
+  
+  meta = {
+    description = "PC emulator";
+    homepage = http://www.virtualbox.org/;
+  };
+}

pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix

@@ -6470,6 +6470,15 @@ let
       inherit fetchurl stdenv binutils pkgconfig kernel;
       inherit (gnome) gtk glib pango libglade;
     };
+
+    # Broken build, still. The install step fails, and I never tried to run that compiled.
+    virtualbox = import ../applications/virtualization/virtualbox/2.1.2.nix {
+      inherit stdenv fetchurl iasl dev86 libxslt libxml2 qt3 qt4 SDL hal
+          libcap libpng zlib kernel;
+      inherit (gtkLibs) glib;
+      inherit (xlibs) xproto libX11 libXext libXcursor;
+      inherit (gnome) libIDL;
+    };
   };
 
   # Build the kernel modules for the some of the kernels.