Hi,

On Sun, 10 Dec 2017, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> This is the mapping you talk about in this case:
> 
> Package: virtualbox-ose-guest-x11
> Modaliases: unused(pci:v000080EEd0000BEEFsv*)
> 
> Is the PCI ID a good marker?

I don't know, I haven't checked. I'm not using virtualbox I switched to
qemu with virt-manager a while ago. Hopefully someone from debian-cloud
will double check since I invited them to have a look at this bug.

> > Also that suggestion is only applicable if you have Xorg installed.
> > You might want to have virtualbox-guest-dkms (or -utils) as default
> > package selection and somehow suggest the -x11 only if you have Xorg
> > (not sure if that's something that is possible in isenkram).
> 
> I can only map from hardware to package, there is no conditionals
> involved at the isenkram level.
> 
> Is there some way to use different hardware markers for this?

I don't know if it makes any sense. But there might be a more generic
modalias entry that is not tighted to the PCI IP of the video card.

> > It would be nice if you could review packages to be installed
> > for other virtualization technologies:
> > - there's qemu-guest-agent for qemu
> > - maybe there are others that you are missing
> 
> I'm happy to adjust the mapping file on request, but am unlikely to have
> capacity to do a review on my own any time soon.

Neither am I. Hence I asked for help on [email protected] in a
separate mail.

Cheers,
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