Bug#794466: VIrtualBox future in Debian

2017-06-20 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
control: affects -1 src:virtualbox-guest-additions-iso control: found -1 virtualbox-guest-additions-iso/5.1.22-1 control: severity -1 serious Adding guest-additions-iso package, to kick it out from testing again G. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Processed: Re: Bug#794466: VIrtualBox future in Debian

2017-06-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > affects -1 src:virtualbox-guest-additions-iso Bug #794466 [src:virtualbox] Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch Ignoring request to set affects of bug 794466 to the same value previously set > found -1 virtualbox-guest-additions-iso/5.1.22-1 Bug #794466 [src:

Bug#794466: VIrtualBox future in Debian

2017-02-02 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 02:36:11PM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > fully agree, but I'm not in the position to revert this change > >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 do

Bug#794466: VIrtualBox future in Debian

2017-01-30 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hello Jeremy, (and security team) >I installed Debian Stretch today using the January 23 weekly >netinstall image. I installed to a VirtualBox guest (the host is >Ubuntu 17.04 Alpha). The install went well except for two issues. > >1. I chose to install the GNOME desktop. tasksel had some kind of

Bug#794466: VIrtualBox future in Debian

2017-01-26 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-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

Bug#794466: VIrtualBox future in Debian

2017-01-25 Thread Jeremy Bicha
Sorry for the long post, but it does give a walkthrough of how this is working now in Stretch… I installed Debian Stretch today using the January 23 weekly netinstall image. I installed to a VirtualBox guest (the host is Ubuntu 17.04 Alpha). The install went well except for two issues. 1. I chos

Bug#794466: VIrtualBox future in Debian

2016-12-14 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi all, >I'd still like to know what the plans are for the VirtualBox package in >Debian. I can backport the version in sid to stretch by building it myself, >but at some >point, this process may break if maintenance of the package is >dropped. I started a discussion on -backports mail list s

Bug#794466: VIrtualBox future in Debian

2016-12-14 Thread Gordon Farquharson
I did a test migration of a VirtualBox image running Windows 10 to KVM from virt-manager, and everything worked. However, I don't seem to have the correct drivers installed (virtio drivers?) to get full resolution support in my guest Windows system. I'd still like to know what the plans are for th

Bug#794466: VIrtualBox future in Debian

2016-12-13 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Mon, 2016-12-12 at 21:59 -0800, Gordon Farquharson wrote: > 3. Do you recommend migrating existing VirtualBox images to KVM? Migration should be doable. I'm not sure if there are any issues in migration, but you may give it a shot. Should you m

Bug#794466: VIrtualBox future in Debian

2016-12-12 Thread Gordon Farquharson
On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:29:39 +0200 Gianfranco Costamagna < locutusofb...@debian.org> wrote: > As per DSA-3699-1, security team thinks virtualbox can't be released with Stretch. Thanks for all your work in maintaining VirtuaBox in Debian. Could you answer the following questions so that I (and ot