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. =) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
