Unattended VM install patch is still in "alpha" stage. i.e. it is unstable, and it is here purely for review & testing purposes only. NOT for inclusion !
I released it now, because it allows me to test VBox 5.0 BETA VMM + GA faster, and may be helpful to others. i.e. It's possible to install 6 guests in under 10 minutes with an Intel i7 + SSD Linux host. On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Klaus Espenlaub <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alexey, > > On 04.04.2015 18:22, Alexey Eromenko wrote: >> >> My old patch back from 2012 (for VirtualBox 4.1.x) was finally ported >> over to VirtualBox 5.0 ! > > > There's almost certainly not enough time to make it part of 5.0 - there are > some pieces of the patch which aren't fully portable yet, and fixing those > need at least one additional library (probably libfat which has a BSD > license). This needs review by the Oracle legal department (yes, even for > such no-brainers) and this takes quite a while from past experience. We > didn't kick off those activities yet due to the higher priority items on our > todo list. > > However, it's very high in the list of things we want to tackle very early > for 5.1 - now that the worst API developer bottlenecks are sorted by finding > replacements for the devs who decided to pursue other interesting projects. > > Thanks, > Klaus > > >> It allows for unattended VM install for multiple guest OSes: Red Hat >> (RHEL), openSUSE, Debian and Windows. >> >> This version includes mostly backend COM interface changes. >> >> More info here: >> https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=46798 >> >> (vbox-unattended v0.7.x = VirtualBox 4.1) >> (vbox-unattended v0.8.x = VirtualBox 4.3) >> (vbox-unattended v0.9.x = VirtualBox 5.0 !) -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
