someone interested in packaging VirtualBox?
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at gmail.com
Sun Feb 24 13:46:46 UTC 2008
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:18:11 -0500
seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
We do. But it has to have someone willing to maintain it, actively work
on getting it upstream, and have davej's approval.
josh
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