Re: F27 Self Contained Change: VirtualBox Guest Integration

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On Fri, 2017-07-07 at 08:14 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 2:57 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > We want to make the default installation do the right thing, as far
> > as
> > possible, on any system, without any explicit configuration or
> > admin steps.
> > In this case it's possible: if a virtualization "channel" is
> > configured,
> > we should assume that the user wants the service. This means that
> > the
> > "guest additions" rpms should be a) installed by default, b)
> > enabled
> > when installed, c) work ootb when running in the right
> > virtualization
> > and silently do nothing otherwise.
> > Essentially, I want to take the same image and boot it in
> > virtualbox,
> > kvm, on bare metal, and in a container, and have things just work.
> 
> Good luck with that. Since the Virtualbox guest additions are *not*
> RPM enabled from their installation CD images, RPM is likely to
> interfere with working, more recent installations of VBox drivers
> from
> the "Guiest Additions" iso image, unless great caution is employed
> and
> unless someone can convince them to be completely consistent in
> installation tools, or to gracefully allow older and newer verson on
> the same host.

yes, we need install VirtualBox-guest-additions , which means
VirtualBox will be one Fedora Package and BTW I hope that Fedora use 
RPMFusion package or based on that, I have many work there. 
And there [1] we got vboxservice.service which have
ConditionVirtualization=|oracle 


[1] 
https://pkgs.rpmfusion.org/cgit/free/VirtualBox.git/tree/vboxservice.service
https://pkgs.rpmfusion.org/cgit/free/VirtualBox.git/tree/


> > > how do you come to the conclusion that a dsiablked service is
> > > suddenly enabled just because of that additional
> > > ConditionVirtualization in the systemd-unit?
> > 
> > Like I wrote above, we want it installed and enabled by default.
> > 
> > End users on windows can be expected to be even less experienced
> > than
> > average, so it's important to make things as automatic and seamless
> > as possible.
> > 
> > Zbyszek
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