-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 18:38 -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > 3. Something needs to be done about whatever in the installer suggests > installing the virtualbox-ose package. Since I clicked OK, I thought > it *did* install something useful for VirtualBox but I don't think it > did. >
This must be from back when VBox had better support model. Given its current status, we should fix the installer and not support VBox there. > 4. I have not had the #2 problem with other distros. Ubuntu includes > some minimal VirtualBox-compatible driver as part of its default > kernel. Could Debian do the same so that Debian will actually run on > VirtualBox? > You mean the driver provided by the virtualbox-guest-dkms package ? The easiest would be if VBox worked on upstreaming that driver. For Debian, carrying that external driver may not be desirable unless the kernel team's policy changed in recent past. > 5. As far as the drivers go, if they aren't in a Debian release, then > once someone actually gets Debian running, I guess they'll either just > keep whatever drivers they installed the first time. Or maybe they'll > use VirtualBox's guest additions iso to install the drivers. Neither > way offers automatic update of drivers. I feel this situation is worse > from a security perspective than having a Debian package that is at > least updated on major new Debian releases. > Hmmm. This one is a worrisome state. But the iso package is part of non-free. > Why can't the Security Team treat VirtualBox like how it's been > treating WebKit1? Still have it in the archives but with a prominent > notice that Debian does not provide security updates. > > 6. Assuming that VirtualBox won't be in the next stable Debian > release, I guess we need a page like mozilla.debian.net for it? - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEQCVDstmIVAB/Yn02pjpYo/LhdWkFAliJ0ykACgkQpjpYo/Lh dWnUGg//ZUJmx0NeJbXqOzJLZVe2hFHccuY6g4IYQ9H8IOtSKHZaF4U6HDRWbMi5 TUHSgF7b5ixlVYYtRQppoT++TY2tZBuGzT8OODbAfJZ/hmFwteGGNlzfmjBDmYXW 0CJKxhXxv0GC0HFrc5kHo7yy+oAGjUbLbsUXfNlWkwIeNMPAzA08KIHM5JZq2x5A ufT+unJXbN1is2aJBPAYKZGJbVJBuG38cLXR+8Tvsom8/IIwpG8mwiIAvcttnn7n N+h0g0caWEu/Yq/KREIgsjRM4SPjp4uLA9pF3jZeeHBw0ieSAZCOeYNW5VjjaHiM fnNxiP0F7q4FTxgQh/Zqn3oBA6PW6P5P/aLGOFUbEZIZU/Mwz6VVlrwBsgnmtPKp N91dJ8BZsT6hHcueBQgl1djcN8Fe2agikUk7W6K0MhBWxZFWrDegKbf0JbfK+LvX 9e1SefkV1tWtirnDjd/aN+EzsVND+zPRb10L27zwZaPaQ2H+rZyh8Sv9nGVdFEV3 2GSz/SnnkdTCPuA3Casz4u0273USPjzNYBnIv/k2G83MNt5ROB6WDDymsCMlBv7r AvQlvmje34BYYT/ZEggeKhSVMSlOE9SDe1GY/gBKLm2K+Sh/qr4Dmz/JZIsUkjCl 43T4+kWilrapFr03NSklvldyO/2fdAtRCpnrqhWLW7+kjfLcwW0= =VcZQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
