Including VirtualBox guest drivers in trusty iso.

staticd staticd.growthecommons at gmail.com
Fri Dec 20 10:57:01 UTC 2013


Thanks jonathan
Having the binary drivers at least for the iso sounds doable (in my limited
understandind) as these drivers are GPL and not PUEL.
But I'll just check out what robie suggested anyway.. I hadn't thought of
the other deps.. will get back with results shortly.

Sachit


On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:58 PM, J Fernyhough <j.fernyhough at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 20 December 2013 09:25, staticd <staticd.growthecommons at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I posted this a while back but got crickets.
> > https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/232004
> >
>
> I also have suggested the same thing - other distros include pre-built
> kernel modules for their live media which means virtual machine
> testing is much easier to do and, as you say, performance is vastly
> improved. Not only does this provide a much better first impression it
> makes life easier for those who use virtual machines, either for
> development or just for testing. There's no need for DKMS, and
> installing/updating the modules later via DKMS works fine. I'm pretty
> sure Ubuntu could have a similar setup.
>
> Jonathon
>
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