Alexey, This is great work indeed
I do not work for Oracle but I'm sure they will agree with this: - Please do not increment version numbers. What you call "4.1.29" should be called "4.1.28+alexey" or "4.1.28+unattended", or something like that. Otherwise, it creates confusion. - Why would porting to Windows be difficult? I have skimmed over the code and noticed nothing really difficult to port (or maybe I missed it) - I noticed some wrong changes in the documentation (probably due to moving your patch forward VBox versions without re-reading the whole patch, easy to fix) - Are you publishing your code in a git/svn repository somewhere? If you use git to mirror the VirtualBox svn repository (use git-svn) and create a branch for your work, then synchronizing and providing patches (and getting more people to eventually help with VBox Unattended) would be much easier On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Alexey Eromenko <[email protected]> wrote: > I have good news and bad news: > > The Good news: > 1. I have revived vboxunattended patch with 0.7.1 release > 2. I have built a binary installer - VirtualBox_unattended-OSE-4.1.29 > for those who like to try it out > The version is a patched 4.1.28, that I renamed as 4.1.29. > > The bad news: > 1. Linux hosts only (porting to Windows will be difficult) > 2. I'we tried & failed to port the patchset to the new VirtualBox > 4.3.0 release -- because the code in this release is so complex, that > I can't understand it. > > [specifically: I was unable to understand how parameters are passed > between the classes in the New VM wizard, for example how the RAM > parameter goes from the VirtualBox GUI into the COM server IMachine > interface: > > UIWizardNewVMPageBasic2->UIWizardNewVMPage2->UINameAndSystemEditor->UIWizardNewVM->CMachine... > ?] > > NOTE: > vbox-unattended patchset is experimental. > > Supported guest OSes: (list not changed in few years) > -openSUSE 11.4 32/64-bit > -Debian 6.0 DVD 32/64-bit > -Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (32/64-bit) > -Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (32/64-bit) > -Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (32/64-bit) > -Windows XP (32-bit) > -Windows Vista (32-bit) > (other OSes might or might not work) > > Install instructions: (Debian Linux) > 1. New Dependencies: > # apt-get install p7zip-full mtools genisoimage > 2. Download & install patched VirtualBox-unattended-OSE for Linux: (4.1.29) > http://www.qumble.org/Downloads/VirtualBox-4.1.29_unattended-OSE-r89849.run > 2.a. [OPTIONAL] MD5SUM: > 2e22e1568a49c0585ab7d4dee6eec50e > /home/alexey/1/VirtualBox-4.1.29_unattended-OSE-r89849.run > 3. Make sure you use Oracle's guest additions: > Download > http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.28/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.1.28.iso > cp [path]/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.1.28.iso > /opt/VirtualBox/additions/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso > > Source code: > https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=46798&p=211187#p211187 > -- > -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev > -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
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