f 16 beta in virtualbox

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 19:49 +0200, Lars Seipel wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 20:45 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> > Sure. But explain it accurately. Sometimes Fedora has a pre-release X
> > server, sure. But sometimes it has a released one, and Oracle still
> > don't support it. And the big roadblock is the guest additions being
> > closed source, or else we could just update them ourselves.
> 
> Are you sure they are not open source? They don't care about pushing
> anything upstream but the guest additions are still free software AFAIR.
> Debian is packaging them, I think. There was something about their
> scripts for generating the ISO images and maybe their installer being
> closed, though. 
> 
> Just took a quick glance and their SVN repo seems to contain something
> that looks like the corresponding code.
> 
> https://www.virtualbox.org/browser/trunk/src/VBox/Additions
> 
> Nevertheless, using Virtualbox with bleeding edge kernels or recent
> x.org versions is just a big pain.

Hum, looks like you're right. I did some searching before writing that
and couldn't find any reference to the GA being open, but I missed that.

So hey, when new X versions come out, anyone can patch the GA to support
them. I wonder if there'll be a VirtualBox-any-any somewhere sometime
soon. =)
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