Hello Michael,
Michael Thayer wrote: > Would you be able to provide us with a relatively standard/from the > book virtual LFS installation that we could play with? That would be > the easiest way for us to ensure that everything works as it should. > I'll be glad to help! However, I think that in order to test the guest additions fully a bare LFS system wouldn't be enough (for instance, LFS does not include X which is needed to test mouse integration). What I think you need is a Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS) system. (In case a short description is needed, a BLFS system is an LFS system plus additional packages that make the bare LFS system suitable for a particular purpose.) At present, I'm building my own BLFS system and I'll readily provide it to you for testing and development of VirtualBox (incl. the guest additions). However, my (B)LFS system is probably slightly different from the official (B)LFS system in that I might have installed some packages that are not part of the official (B)LFS system or the versions of the packages I have installed might be other (most probably newer) that those in the official (B)LFS system. In any case, this system is very close to the official one and I intend to continue upgrading it as new versions of the installed packages are released. One other deviation from the official system is that I've used the package users package management system. I think this is not an obstacle to testing the guest additions, but I mention it for two reasons: the first one is completeness and the second one is to request some changes to the install scripts so that the guest additions do not require root privileges in order to be installed. (This will make it possible to install the guest additions as a package user.) I have done some of these changes myself and I can share them if there is interest. Regards, Angel Tsankov _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
