Is there a Virtualbox Non-OSE rpm for Tumbleweed?
All, I'm not great deciphering the various virtualbox 7.0.20 rpm names in the various OSS or community repositories to tell if the rpm is Oracle branded non-OSE with USB support. Virtualbox puts out rpms for openSUSE for the non-OSE version, but only has 15.3 as the latest rpm (which is used for Leap 15.4 and 15.5) E.g. in https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/opensuse/ or if you prefer https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.0.20/ I've not yet installed virtualbox on Tumbleweed for that reason. Any help would be appreciated. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Am Freitag, 26. Juli 2024, 09:57:26 CEST schrieb David C. Rankin:
All,
I'm not great deciphering the various virtualbox 7.0.20 rpm names in the various OSS or community repositories to tell if the rpm is Oracle branded non-OSE with USB support. Virtualbox puts out rpms for openSUSE for the non-OSE version, but only has 15.3 as the latest rpm (which is used for Leap 15.4 and 15.5) E.g. in
https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/opensuse/
or if you prefer
https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.0.20/
I've not yet installed virtualbox on Tumbleweed for that reason. Any help would be appreciated.
After the passing of Larry Finger, the User larryr (Larry Rainey) has build it new in the Virtulization Repo: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox Stephan
W dniu 26.07.2024 o 09:57, David C. Rankin pisze:
All,
I'm not great deciphering the various virtualbox 7.0.20 rpm names in the various OSS or community repositories to tell if the rpm is Oracle branded non-OSE with USB support. Virtualbox puts out rpms for openSUSE for the non-OSE version, but only has 15.3 as the latest rpm (which is used for Leap 15.4 and 15.5) E.g. in
https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/opensuse/
or if you prefer
https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.0.20/
I've not yet installed virtualbox on Tumbleweed for that reason. Any help would be appreciated.
With version 4.0, there is only one version any more, which is open
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions source, and the closed-source components have been moved to a separate extension pack. So it makes no difference if you use oracle repo or virtualbox-ose from openSUSE repo.
On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 at 08:57, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@gmail.com> wrote:
All,
I'm not great deciphering the various virtualbox 7.0.20 rpm names in the various OSS or community repositories to tell if the rpm is Oracle branded non-OSE with USB support.
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. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lproven@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lproven@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053
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.
Maybe ask here: https://forums.opensuse.org/t/pure-oracle-virtualbox-for-opensuse-15-6-i-got... Stephan Am Samstag, 27. Juli 2024, 00:39:41 CEST schrieb David C. Rankin:
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?
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