[Bug 257159] New: Please consider including VirtualBox (OSS competitor to VMware)
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159 Summary: Please consider including VirtualBox (OSS competitor to VMware) Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Alpha 2 Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: al4321@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Hi all ! Please consider including VirtualBox package with openSUSE 10.3. I'm heavy emulators/virtualization user, so this addition would be important for me. openSUSE already includes many products from that field, including Bochs, Qemu, DOSBox, Xen, ... so why not add this one too ? This new virtualization solution appeared on the market only recently, in 2007 as open-source GPL'ed product. I think it is better than the currently existing Open-Source solutions. This product is very high-class and an excellent competitor to proprietary software such as VMware, and so, the least we can do as a community, is to support this effort, and build a competition to the very pricey&proprietary VMware. On my side, I have made a push of VirtualBox into 10.3 - I did it by submitting VirtualBox detailed step-by-step setup article into Lessons for Lizards, so if the package gets included it will have documentation already available. So openSUSE 10.3 final release has a good chance to have both the package and my documentation available same-day-release. I want the final users of 10.3 to get maximum. NOTE: There is an official documentation available, but it deals poorly with SUSE-specific issues, so my documentation has an added extra-value. You can read my VirtualBox guide here: http://www.violtan.com/ae/virtualbox.html Alternatively, you can download it from LfL SVN. VirtualBox Home Page: www.virtualbox.org What do you think of it? For questions, email me: al4321@gmail.com PS. I promise to update documentation and support VBox users. -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159 al4321@gmail.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|Normal |Enhancement Priority|P5 - None |P3 - Medium Platform|Other |PC Found By|Other |Third Party Developer/Partner -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159 jdd@dodin.org changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jdd@dodin.org ------- Comment #1 from jdd@dodin.org 2007-03-23 10:11 MST ------- While it needs of course some tests, I must say that at first use VirtualBox is very pleasant and a good replacement for VMWare - the fact that it's GPL is a great plus on top of "free" as in free beer :-) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159 aj@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |aj@novell.com Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |michl@novell.com ------- Comment #2 from aj@novell.com 2007-03-26 04:56 MST ------- Michael, what is your recommendation? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159 suse-tux@gmx.de changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |suse-tux@gmx.de ------- Comment #3 from suse-tux@gmx.de 2007-03-29 14:22 MST ------- It would be really nice to have virtualbox in 10.3 Btw. i build some packages which can be found in the Buildservice (project: virtualization). So if there are some packaging issues etc. i'm willing to help :) (ps i'm going to update the packages this weekend to the latest release..). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159 ------- Comment #4 from al4321@gmail.com 2007-04-14 16:39 MST ------- Can we move this package-request from the dead point ? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159 aj@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|aj@novell.com |nadvornik@novell.com Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|michl@novell.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159 ------- Comment #5 from aj@novell.com 2007-04-17 07:20 MST ------- Vladimir, could you find somebody to help with the BuildService project and copy it into the internal tree if major changes occur? I suggest to co-maintain it in the BuildService for now until we build completely in the build service. Note the package is i386 only. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159 ------- Comment #6 from suse-tux@gmx.de 2007-04-17 09:26 MST ------- (In reply to comment #5)
Note the package is i386 only.
There are some XEN issues that's why we haven't a x86_64 package. Outside the buildservice it compiles fine but at the moment x86_64 builds fail (which is due to some #ifdef CONFIG_XEN... directives in the kernel headers). I will dive deeper into this and try to make it work on x86_64 as well. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159 mkudlvasr@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|nadvornik@novell.com |mkudlvasr@novell.com Status|NEW |ASSIGNED ------- Comment #7 from mkudlvasr@novell.com 2007-04-18 05:20 MST ------- (In reply to comment #5)
Vladimir, could you find somebody to help with the BuildService project and copy it into the internal tree if major changes occur? Ok, I'll take it.
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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159 ------- Comment #8 from suse-tux@gmx.de 2007-04-18 07:23 MST ------- (In reply to comment #7)
Ok, I'll take it.
Great! If you like i can add you to the "maintainers list" in the "virtualization" BuildService project. If you have questions concerning packaging virtualbox just ask/email me:) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159 ------- Comment #9 from al4321@gmail.com 2007-04-18 11:24 MST ------- That's great ! It's really good to have official maintainer ! So who gets the maintainer status ? Marcus or Martin ? Marcus built some packages, but will Martin take over, or Marcus will be vbox-buildservice maintainer while Martin will be vbox-internal maintainer ? Good news on my side: I have updated the VirtualBox-on-openSUSE guide, and made it officially online ! link: http://forgeftp.novell.com/lfl/.html/virtualbox.html Of course, I will continue to update and maintain my guide as well, as a value-add for susers(=SUSE users) :) ! -Alexey "Technologov" -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159 ------- Comment #10 from mkudlvasr@novell.com 2007-04-26 12:10 MST ------- (In reply to comment #9)
So who gets the maintainer status ? Marcus or Martin ? Marcus built some packages, but will Martin take over, or Marcus will be vbox-buildservice maintainer while Martin will be vbox-internal maintainer ?
I'd go with the internal maintainer only:-) But I sure will propagate the changes that will be usefull into BS. Ok, virtualbox is now in autobuild. Can we consider the issue of adding virtualbox closed? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159 ------- Comment #11 from al4321@gmail.com 2007-04-26 12:15 MST ------- Once I see packages in the official FTP repository for openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 4, this request will be closed. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159 ------- Comment #12 from mkudlvasr@novell.com 2007-04-26 13:12 MST ------- Yeah right, the bugzilla should reflect the actual situation not the (good) intentions :-) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159 ------- Comment #13 from al4321@gmail.com 2007-06-02 08:10 MST ------- Well, the intentions might be good, but what about the progress ? I don't see it as part of Alpha4 tree. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159 ------- Comment #14 from mkudlvasr@novell.com 2007-06-02 14:50 MST ------- that's strange. I'll check this on monday -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159 ------- Comment #17 from stbinner@novell.com 2007-06-05 04:00 MST ------- It's waiting for the legal department review. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159 ------- Comment #18 from anschneider@novell.com 2007-06-06 13:51 MST ------- I helped Markus cleaning up the package and building the svn version which is 1.4 now. The snapshot will be updated daily soon (cronjob on my workstation). I've fixed the buildservice bugs with the help of Adrian and henne. We moved the project on the BS to Virtualization:VirtualBox. The Linux Guest Additions aren't packaged yet. This would be the next step. FYI: You can find Windows Guest Additions at http://code.google.com/p/virtual-box-windows-guest-additions-installer/ -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159#c19
--- Comment #19 from Alexey Eremenko
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159#c20
--- Comment #20 from Alexey Eremenko
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159#c21
--- Comment #21 from Andreas Jaeger
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159#c22
--- Comment #22 from Alexey Eremenko
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159#c23
Andreas Jaeger
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159#c24
--- Comment #24 from Alexey Eremenko
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257159#c25
--- Comment #25 from Alexey Eremenko
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--- Comment #26 from Stephan Binner
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