On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 08:28:30AM +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
Am Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:50:54 -0500 schrieb Larry Finger
: Why is there so much work needed for VMware? VirtualBox's kernel module is already patched for kernel 3.1 in their latest release (4.1.2). All one needs is 'make' and 'sudo make install'.
But kernel hackers consider VirtualBox "bad" while considering VMware "good". I never quite understood why. The code is probably equally crap and VBox is at least GPL (which VMware is not, IIRC).
vmware has worked to get their code accepted into the main kernel.org repositories, while virtualbox refuses to get involved at all and the community is tired of seeing bug reports like "virtualbox doesn't compile on the latest kernel" when there is nothing that they can do about that at all. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org