F15 / VirtualBox

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 08:01:06PM +1000, Chris Jones wrote:

> I agree. As virtualization technology becomes more and more involved  
> and frequent on users systems, particularly with advanced Linux users,  
> I think there needs to be a strong focus on ensuring that all releases  
> run in virtualized environments without any major issues. ie.  
> Virtualbox.
> 
> Perhaps a dedicated team among the developers who specialize in this area.

I don't think there are any developers working on this area, where "this 
area" is Virtualbox. We don't ship Virtualbox. We don't ship a kernel 
that has any knowledge of Virtualbox. There's a good argument for having 
this be part of the QA process and requiring that we boot in the common 
virtualisation environments as part of the release criteria, but I don't 
think we can realistically suggest that our virtualisation developers 
(who work on code that has nothing to do with Virtualbox) be responsible 
for that.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org