someone interested in packaging VirtualBox?

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Sun Feb 24 04:18:11 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 20:12 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:40:00AM +0100, Christoph Höger wrote:
>  > Hi there,
>  > 
>  > I've noticed that there seems to be no review request for virtualbox so
>  > far. I think it would be great to have this opensource vmware killer in
>  > the repos but currently I am not quite sure if I could manage to package
>  > it all alone.
>  > 
>  > Is someone willing to support me in this area. I would do the main work
>  > and mainly need someone to ask dumb questions and make sure things go
>  > the fedora way. Maybe someone who is already packaging some virt related
>  > stuff?
> 
> The kernel module for this is way too ugly to live.
> 

And, iirc, fedora does not allow external-from-the-kernel modules.

so it doesn't fly.

-sv





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