Re: F27 Self Contained Change: VirtualBox Guest Integration

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On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 9:36 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> On 07-07-17 16:43, Sérgio Basto wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
> No worries I do plan to use your package as a starting point and
> I will coordinate with you. For now I'm focussed on cleaning up the
> kernel module stuff though.

Do you expect this to be complete and upstream in time for F27?

While the upstream work is on-going, are you proposing to add the
drivers to the kernel package via a patch?  The Change could read
either way on that.

josh
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