someone interested in packaging VirtualBox?

Christoph Höger choeger at cs.tu-berlin.de
Sun Feb 24 11:09:11 UTC 2008


Am Samstag, den 23.02.2008, 20:12 -0500 schrieb Dave Jones:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:40:00AM +0100, Christoph Höger wrote:
>  > Hi there,
>  > 
>  > I've noticed that there seems to be no review request for virtualbox so
>  > far. I think it would be great to have this opensource vmware killer in
>  > the repos but currently I am not quite sure if I could manage to package
>  > it all alone.
>  > 
>  > Is someone willing to support me in this area. I would do the main work
>  > and mainly need someone to ask dumb questions and make sure things go
>  > the fedora way. Maybe someone who is already packaging some virt related
>  > stuff?
> 
> The kernel module for this is way too ugly to live.
> 
> 	Dave
> 
> -- 
> http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
> 

Hi,

what do you exactly mean with "too ugly to live"? Is it that fragile bad
code or does it just not fit the kernel styling guidelines?

And if the quality is just not good enough to get into fedora, what
efforts would be needed to fix that? 

regards

christoph
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