On 7/26/24 12:42 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
There is no separate version any more. Hasn't been for about a decade or more.
The whole of VirtualBox is open source and it's in the repos of most distros. It supports USB1 and USB2.
Now, the proprietary bits are in the VirtualBox Extension Pack. That is freeware but must be licensed for commercial use so don't install it on a work machine!
Do not confuse the VBox Extension Pack with the VBox Guest Additions. Those are also FOSS, are also in the repos of many distros, and can be installed from a freely-downloadable ISO included with VBox.
Thank you Stephan, Adam and Liam, Sorry to hear about Larry Finger. Had talked with him often about driver build and kernel version changes over the years. I've used virtualbox for so long and hadn't snapped to the demise of PUEL/non-OSE - I guess it hadn't been relevant to how I was using it, I always just grabbed to copy from the Oracle site along with the extension-pack -- to the point of knowing how to generate the acceptance key when it changed. Thanks for clearing that up. Question, if there is no longer a PUEL/OSE difference, then what is the difference between the packages in OSS/Update and the Virtualization repo? Will it just be versioning? (7.1 is in beta). So will OSS/Update continue with the 7.0.X release while Virtualization will move to 7.1.X when released? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.