--- On Fri, 9/11/09, Maciek Kaliszewski <[email protected]> wrote:
> Simply stated, I have NO idea what you really want. In > other words, what specific situation would make you happy? I thought I made that quite clear, but for your benefit, I will state it again. Either a binary that will run on a generic distribution compiled with gcc 4 or USB support in the open source edition. > In my view (which may well be defective at this point) > VirtualBox and USB are ENTIRELY unrelated. Let me > explain that remark. Have you ever read any of the documentation (like this page)? http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions > Now install, as a second Guest System, something such as > Windows XP Pro. Did WinXPPro support USB? Most of the > time, yes. Does it here in VirtualBox? Same answer. Not in the open source edition. > Concerning your "compiled binaries", I have no business > making any comment beyond this. You make it sound as if > you are running something that nobody else is running -- > and asking us if YOUR stuff will work. That is completely erroneous. I am running a very common combination of the system toolchain (neither archaic nor cutting edge). The "generic" virtualbox binary requires gcc 3, which, while it still "works" (so does DOS 6.22), IS archaic. > That sounds one step short of silly to me; after all, > how would anyone be able to know from experience if a > totally customized system will work ANYwhere! There is a broad (but not perfect) level of compatibility across versions of the system toolchain. These are well- known. So are incompatibilities. Applications compiled with gcc 3 will not work on a system with only gcc 4 libraries (and vice versa). > Remember that Virtualbox is available -- even in the > latest (3.0.6) version -- for absolutely NO money at > all. If you can customize a "distro" that highly, you > should be able to make most of it work in VirtualBox. > Try it out. If you CAN'T make it work, simply > uninstall it and go back to whatever works for you. I can't make the generic version to work on the machines I need to have it work on. > And it is opensource :-) , if some feature is closed > nothing can stop you from implementing it and release on > opensource basis . VirtualBox OSE is AFAIR GPL'ed Yes indeed, but adding USB support to the open source edition (aside from reinventing the wheel) would not be an efficient use of my time. > From my part I want express my gratitude to Sun for > Openoffice ,Vbox , etc.:-) I am grateful, too, but I would be a lot more grateful if they would offer a gcc 4 compiled version of each release. :) > I hope this attitude will not change after takeover by > Oracle :-) Oracle has worked with open source for a long time, and they certainly have no motivation to change the status quo. Nuzhna _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
