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. =)