There should be something within virtualbox to prompt you to download the correct ISO anyway, at least it did for me, sorry I knwo these replies are all written in tongues buti am not in front of the Linux machine at the moment as I am at work. Also on the licencing issues maybe I am being naive here but I wonder if virtual box presumes that you are foregoing the licensing issues as you are installing a licenced operating system to the VM?
Also yes it was originally owned by Innotek I think but I think they got swallowed up by Sun Regards Richard On 12/03/2008, Mark Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Richard Forth wrote: > > Yes but you do it through the "Virtual Box Additional Support Drivers" > > (I cant remember the name exactly) which is an ISO that you download > > when prompted by VirtualBox, and mount it as a disk on the virtual > > machine and it installs all the drivers for you and also enables the > > "seamless mode". > > I had a quick look at the VirtualBox website to find the ISO (I know it > exists, I've used it before, but couldn't find it this time around). > However I'm pretty sure that using it meant moving away from the GPL > VirtualBox to the "free-for-non-commercial-use" VirtualBox, which was > the point I was making about licences. > > I did notice however that VirtualBox is now owned by Sun, so maybe there > will be some changes to the licensing. I have a feeling that the reason > was more to do with the drivers containing proprietary components which > couldn't be released under a free licence, though. > > Who's next for Sun, I wonder? > > -- > Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 > Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG > > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro > -- ***** Richard Forth "I used to be indecisive, but now, I''m not so sure!" *****
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