On 18.05.2013 20:04, Antonio Terceiro wrote: >> However, Watcom is needed only for 16-bit code, and VirtualBox has an EFI >> mode. Would it be possible to restrict it to EFI only in main, unless the >> BIOS from contrib is loaded? > > If that's possible, I would ask the virtualbox maintainer(s) to please > consider this alternative so that we can have virtualbox back in main.
There are a few problems with this: - The EFI images aren't currently built from source as well. However it should be possible to do so (see [1]). - I'm not sure how well VirtualBox is able to boot common operating system with EFI. I (and probably upstream) are already looking forward to heaps of "$OS doesn't boot" bug reports. - It would require even more patching of VirtualBox to default to EFI and display a proper error message when you try to boot a VM in BIOS mode and it's not available. - The VirtualBox maintainers (= me at the moment) don't even have time to properly maintain the VirtualBox package as it is. So someone else would have to join pkg-virtualbox and do the work. Cheers, Felix [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-virtualbox/virtualbox.git;a=blob;f=src/VBox/Devices/EFI/Firmware2/VBoxPkg/ReadMe.txt;hb=HEAD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5197de7c.9030...@debian.org
