VirtualBox 3.1.8 released... support for Lucid Lynx.

[Dotan Cohen]

On 10 May 2010 18:19, Gilles Gravier <ggravier at fsfe.org> wrote:
> Dotan,
>
> On 10/05/2010 17:02, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>> Among other fixes it contains support for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx hosts.
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks, Gilles. Why does support for a specific Linux distro have to
>> be enabled? Is there something fundamentally different about Lucid
>> Lynx that needs special support? I can understand coding support for
>> different OSes, such as Windows, but for yet another Linux distro?
>>
> I don't know the specifics, but for example when Ubuntu introduced
> AppArmor, applications that used IPCs to communicate with other
> components (think MySQL and PHP) needed to be adapted (my Logitech
> Squeezeserver had to be udpated)... differences in kernel, differences
> in networking stack at low level (VirtualBox interfaces INSIDE the
> networking stack to enable things like NAT or bridging with the host
> network cards)...
>
> VirtualBox is a complex application that has kernel-level interactions
> with the host...
>
> Gilles.
>

I see, thanks. I suppose that different kernels would in fact need
different support.

Thanks!

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