F15 / VirtualBox

[Tom Hughes]

On 10/06/11 16:54, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Tom Hughes on 06/10/2011 10:25 AM wrote:
>> Actually building the driver (once I'd downloaded the 620Mb DDK) was
>> quite easy. I'm still scratching my head over how to actually install it
>> though ;-)
>>
>> That was only the graphics driver anyway - what I really want is the
>> agent for the clipboard protocol.
>>
>> To be fair you can download both the drivers and the agent in prebuilt
>> form at http://spice-space.org/download.html but only for 32 bit Windows
>> at the moment.
>
> I'm not sure why you're using this argument as a positive thing. In VB
> (or any third-party VM software) installing the guest additions for
> 32-bit /and/ 64-bit OSes is as easy and clicking "Install" and
> rebooting. No driver downloads. No config file editing. Until
> libvirt/qemu/kvm/spice provide a similar solution there is no comparison.

I wasn't trying to suggest that the current situation is perfect, just 
that it isn't always as bad as the DDK thing sounded.

Tom

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