Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (242 mails)

[Richard Bos <rbos@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Op woensdag 08 december 2010 16:19:30 schreef Alexey Eromenko:
> Some things were proprietary:
> -Installers for Guest Additions (windows + RPM SPECs)
> (openSUSE project re-created new RPM SPECs for openSUSE guest, but not
> for other guests)
> -Shared Folders for Windows Guests were proprietary, now they OSS
> -openSUSE project never shipped Guest Additions for Windows Guests
>
> So now you can take the whole binary "GuestAdditions.iso" and ship it
> with openSUSE distro. It should be 100% GPL now.
> Legal test is still recommended in any case.

From:
http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-12-28-017-35-NW-BZ-0000
"No fork yet!!!!???? 
Yes I know the core product is still open source and there are other open 
source virtualization alternatives, but still.... I would love to see a distro 
that will open into an improve virtualbox (or any other open source 
alternative) Graphical User Interface. This GUI will include a drop down menu 
with links to download hundreds of Operating Systems to install them inside 
the Virtualization Box. Not only that but things like the Guest additions 
should be automatize so that the end user experience will be maximized at all 
times. 

Imagine Debian Virtualizing Distro, using VirtualBox. The initial install will 
install all the needed software to run VirtualBox. Then all the applications, 
etc. etc. will be install in a regular Debian instalation inside the 
VirtualBox and will be the first of many Virtual Disk inside Virtual Box.... 
So, once again, where is the fork... or better still the distro.... "

I thought of the OBS when reading the above.

That was a reply on this article:
http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/12/oracle-extends-open-source-
vir.html
"Starting with this new VirtualBox 4.0 release, Oracle has reorganized the 
project so there is a base release and then there are Extension Packs, that 
extend VirtualBox and aren't necessarily open source either. 

For the VirtualBox 4.0 release Oracle there is now one extension pack which 
includes three new pieces of functionality, a virtual USB 2.0 (EHCI) 
device,VirtualBox Remote Desktop Protocol (VRDP) support and Intel PXE boot 
ROM with support for the E1000 network card."

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Richard
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