It looks like the package *does* declare the modaliases in the control
file (took a deb from the trusty archives).
But the package is not included in the iso at all. I can't even apt-get
install it manually (that is a good test of its absence right?).
I filed a bug (
https://bugs.launchpad.net/
On 20 December 2013 13:05, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Dimitri John Ledkov [2013-12-20 12:11 +]:
>> Looks like "virtualbox-guest-dkms" package doesn't declare any
>> Modaliases, maybe it should be integrated with ubuntu-drivers, if
>> possible.
>
> Indeed, then it would also automagically appear in t
Dimitri John Ledkov [2013-12-20 12:11 +]:
> Looks like "virtualbox-guest-dkms" package doesn't declare any
> Modaliases, maybe it should be integrated with ubuntu-drivers, if
> possible.
Indeed, then it would also automagically appear in the additional
drivers tab in software-properties. virtu
Hello,
On 20 December 2013 10:04, Robie Basak wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 02:55:11PM +0530, staticd wrote:
>> The drivers (virtualbox-guest-dkms, virtualbox-guest-x11,
>> virtualbox-guest-utils) are in debian and ubuntu repos (universe) and total
>> to only 1.8MB.
>
> What about dependencies
Thanks jonathan
Having the binary drivers at least for the iso sounds doable (in my limited
understandind) as these drivers are GPL and not PUEL.
But I'll just check out what robie suggested anyway.. I hadn't thought of
the other deps.. will get back with results shortly.
Sachit
On Fri, Dec 20,
On 20 December 2013 09:25, staticd wrote:
>
> I posted this a while back but got crickets.
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/232004
>
I also have suggested the same thing - other distros include pre-built
kernel modules for their live media which means virtual machine
testing is mu
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 02:55:11PM +0530, staticd wrote:
> The drivers (virtualbox-guest-dkms, virtualbox-guest-x11,
> virtualbox-guest-utils) are in debian and ubuntu repos (universe) and total
> to only 1.8MB.
What about dependencies? DKMS packages need quite a bit of supporting
infrastucture (t
The out-of-the-box performance of ubuntu on VB is not very good. It needs
some extra drivers without which unity is unbearably slow. With them, a
virtualized ubuntu desktop performs very decently even as primary working
platform.
The drivers (virtualbox-guest-dkms, virtualbox-guest-x11,
virtualbox
