Including VirtualBox guest drivers in trusty iso.

Dimitri John Ledkov xnox at ubuntu.com
Fri Dec 20 13:37:26 UTC 2013


On 20 December 2013 13:05, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Dimitri John Ledkov [2013-12-20 12:11 +0000]:
>> Looks like "virtualbox-guest-dkms" package doesn't declare any
>> Modaliases, maybe it should be integrated with ubuntu-drivers, if
>> possible.
>
> Indeed, then it would also automagically appear in the additional
> drivers tab in software-properties. virtualbox-guest* is already
> whitelisted for auto-installation in ubuntu-drivers-common, so once it
> gets a Modaliases: it should "just work" in ubiquity,
> "ubuntu-drivers autoinstall", etc.
>

Filed a bug report at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/1263099 to
track this.

Unfortunately, I don't use VirtualBox and don't know the Modaliases
patters that it exposes. So I hope someone else can prepare the
trivial fix for this.

-- 
Regards,

Dimitri.




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