On 3/20/20 7:26 AM, Larry Finger wrote:
On 3/19/20 3:38 PM, Vojtěch Zeisek wrote:
Hi
Dne čtvrtek 19. března 2020 21:29:19 CET, Larry Finger napsal(a):
A user just contributed a script that downloads and installs the extension pack for VirtualBox. I would like to get the sense of VB users regarding implementation of this script in the post-install routine for the openSUSE package.
I might be missing something, but the add-on You are supposed to install in the quest OS, aren't You? So If I install e.g. Windows (poke) in VB... I guess the script wouldn't be able to install the VB add-ons on that guest Windows, would it? So... I might be missing the point of it...? Otherwise, anything simplifying getting guest add-ons to installed VM is fine. :-)
It is not the guest additions. That needs to be done from within the guest. I also need to run VM versions of Windows for certain tasks. At least, you can now download and install that iso file from the "Devices" menu item.
What I am talking about here is the PUEL-licensed stuff that adds the USB 2 and USB 3 drivers to the host code. With that license, we cannot distribute, but we could supply a script that ensures that it is always updated when you update to a new version of VB.
Is SUSE's Legal team happy to interpret that license in this way? otherwise the package is likely not to pass a legal review. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B