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On Mi., 24. Aug. 2011 22:57:54 CEST, wynkoop@wynn.com wrote:

> Here it is:
> 
> 
> ===> The following configuration options are available for
> python27-2.7.2_1:         THREADS=off "Enable thread support"
>           HUGE_STACK_SIZE=off "Use a larger thread stack"
>           SEM=off "Use POSIX semaphores (experimental)"
>           PTH=off "Use GNU Pth for threading/multiprocessing"
>           UCS4=on "Use UCS4 for unicode support"
>           PYMALLOC=on "Use python's internal malloc"
>           IPV6=on "Enable IPv6 support"
>           FPECTL=off "Enable floating point exception handling"
> ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
> 
> -Brett

Thats it! Virtualbox needs python threads which is enabled per default for python 2.6 and 2.7 but you have disabled it for some reason.

So recompile python 2.7 with the threads option enabled and then compiling vbox should work just fine.