On 07/17/2011 07:21 PM, Greg KH wrote:
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 03:55:51PM +0200, Tim wrote:
Hi,
I have read some time ago that Virtualbox was removed from Tumbleweed because of the not so easy maintainable kernel source.
If Virtualbox doesn't support the Tumbleweed Kernel version out of the box it is fine that Virtualbox isn't compiled in Tumbleweed but if it does support it the effort can't be that high I suppose? So isn't it possible to ship the Virtualbox kernel module as soon as it is supported from the vendor?
No, if the virtualbox kmp is in the tumbleweed repo, it will cause breakage for people who use it when the updated kernel breaks any update for it.
And as there is no "support" from the vendor for this code, there's not much I can do sorry. I have heard of people using the virtualbox repo that is built against tumbleweed fairly successfully, and recommend doing that if you really are stuck using virtualbox.
In general I would prefer something like DKMS for openSUSE. It is stupid that a kernel version is "hardcoded" in one version while the sources are available and other Kernels are supported. With DKMS we wouldn't have the problem now I suppose.
Heh, no, it would be the same problem, DKMS doesn't solve this at all.
A MozillaThunderbird 5 upgrade with the compatible Enigmail would be great. It is already in factory.
What packages specifically are you looking for?
thanks,
greg k-h
Virtualbox hasn't needed additional kernel modules in my Tumbleweed for quite some time. [Unless it's happening and I didn't notice, nah surely not]. It's been a month or two since I needed to use a kmp-virtualbox RPM. Currently using kernel-desktop-2.6.39.2-36.1.x86_64 and VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.12_72916_openSUSE114-1.x86_64 Works for me with windows and Linux VMs. Try it and see. John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org