Re: Where do you get Virtualbox

2022-04-02 Thread Erwan David
Le 02/04/2022 à 06:17, Pankaj Jangid a écrit : Dan Ritter writes: In any case, you seem to have answered your own question: Oracle is the supplier of virtualbox. If you don't trust them, there are many fine alternatives to virtualbox, most of which are built on the work of kvm, qemu or Xen.

Re: Where do you get Virtualbox

2022-04-01 Thread Pankaj Jangid
Dan Ritter writes: > In any case, you seem to have answered your own question: Oracle > is the supplier of virtualbox. If you don't trust them, there > are many fine alternatives to virtualbox, most of which are > built on the work of kvm, qemu or Xen. To use USB devices inside a guest system,

Re: Where do you get Virtualbox

2022-03-31 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2022 31 Mar 12:29 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > I'm not sure exactly why it's even being uploaded to unstable. But I > guess if some Debian developer wants to spend their time doing that, > they're permitted. Maybe they keep hoping that upstream will change > their policy some day? Or that

Re: Where do you get Virtualbox

2022-03-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 06:57:04PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Alas, you cannot always choose exactly what you use a must comprimise a > little. For virtualbox one of my interrogations is that the package in sid > is very good, is stable, but it never goes to testing. There ust be a > reason, but

Re: Where do you get Virtualbox

2022-03-31 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 06:57:04PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le 31/03/2022 à 15:57, The Wanderer a écrit : > > For myself, the answer is quite simple: I don't. VirtualBox used to make > > my life easier, but the combination of not being available in Debian > > testing with the *reasons* why it

Re: Where do you get Virtualbox

2022-03-31 Thread Erwan David
Le 31/03/2022 à 15:57, The Wanderer a écrit : For myself, the answer is quite simple: I don't. VirtualBox used to make my life easier, but the combination of not being available in Debian testing with the *reasons* why it isn't available there (license-related, last time I checked, if I remember

Re: Where do you get Virtualbox

2022-03-31 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-03-31 at 09:30, Dan Ritter wrote: > Erwan David wrote: > >> virtualbox is available either in Sid, or on Oracl's virtualbox >> repository. Where do you get it (I am on testing). > > Running testing means you have to expect this sort of thing. > In any case, you seem to have answered

Re: Where do you get Virtualbox

2022-03-31 Thread Dan Ritter
Erwan David wrote: > virtualbox is available either in Sid, or on Oracl's virtualbox repository. > Where do you get it (I am on testing). Running testing means you have to expect this sort of thing. People forget that near the end of each release cycle, when testing is relatively quiet and

Where do you get Virtualbox

2022-03-31 Thread Erwan David
virtualbox is available either in Sid, or on Oracl's virtualbox repository. Where do you get it (I am on testing). -- Erwan