We strongly recommend you set the path manually for later steps, using one of the commands below on a command shell. On Windows, the path to the VirtualBox installation directory is not automatically added to the path during installation.

Windowsĭownload the binary package specified as “Windows hosts” from VirtualBox Download page and install it on your computer. macOSĭownload the binary package specified as “OS X hosts” from VirtualBox Download page and install it on your computer. Installing from an Online Package Repositoryįollow the instructions in Debian-based Linux distributions section. Installing a Packageĭownload the appropriate package from VirtualBox for Linux page and install the package. deb) file and install the package, or use the apt-get command to install Oracle VM VirtualBox from an online package repository (recommended). If you don’t have Oracle VM VirtualBox already installed on your computer, you need to install it.

macOS Sierra (10.12) or higher (64-bit).

For requirements to install and run VirtualBox, see its end-user documentation page.

The emulator requires the following environments. For more details on how to build and patch, visit webOS OSE emulator GitHub.

Since webOS OSE 2.7.0, Ubuntu 20.04 build system and additional patches are needed to build the VirtualBox Emulator.

Supports webOS OSE CLI tool for application and service development.

Provides graphics functionality with host PC’s GPU H/W acceleration.

Emulates major features of webOS OSE platform on PC without Raspberry Pi target device.

Key characteristics of the emulator are as follows:

webOS OSE emulator requires VirtualBox version 6.0 or higher, which can be installed on 64-bit host platforms only.The VirtualBox-based emulator is supported by webOS OSE 1.10.0 or higher.

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