0. Unattended core functionality itself *is* stable. What isn't stable: 1. Installer needs work; For now installing unattended templates is a manual task. I couldn't figure out how Oracle kmk Makefile system works. Is there any documentation?
2. Compatibility with Oracle VirtualBox is unstable: I defined new VM types for Red Hat guests, like RHEL7_64, which Oracle VirtualBox fails to understand and renders RHEL VMs inaccessible. So if a user later upgrades to newer version of Oracle VirtualBox, and have Red Hat VMs, they will be screwed. I need to figure out a patch, to allow unknown VM OS types to be handled. Reverted to unknown OS type. 3. License is simple BSD. 4. I plan to maintain it as time permits. 5. Some pieces of the patch aren't portable to Windows hosts, and I need help. 6. Final answer : until I solve #2, I can't recommend this for normal users. (But it can go into Debian-experimental under virtualbox-te name, if you feel like it.) On May 6, 2015 8:46 PM, "Gianfranco Costamagna" < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alexey, Debian Maintainer here. > > I just read your mail, but I didn't look/download the code. > > Do you think such addon would be ready/useful for Debian? is it stable? > which license does it have? do you plan to maintain it? > > I would like to understand if a pakaging would be useful for the Community! > > Cheers, > > Gianfranco > > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android > <https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/mobile/?.src=Android> > ------------------------------ > *From*:"Alexey Eromenko" <[email protected]> > *Date*:Wed, 6 May, 2015 at 19:18 > *Subject*:[vbox-dev] Updated Automated-guest-installs for VirtualBox ! > (beta5) > > vbox-unattended. > This is an unofficial addon patch on top of Oracle VirtualBox. Highly > experimental ! > It allows fully-automatic installs of virtual machines in VirtualBox > and provides tight integration with each supported OS. Very fast ! > > Summary of v0.9-beta5: (compared to v0.8 series) > > - ported to VirtualBox 5.0 ! (mostly COM interface changes) > - added support for Windows 8, Windows 10 and Debian Linux 7 guests. > - added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 guests. > - fixed support for 64-bit Windows 7 and Vista guests. > - added ISO image file picker > > minor changes: > - handled a few common dependency errors. (if user forgot to install > dependencies such as unattended scripts, mtools or 7-zip) > - few GUI bugs fixed > - disabled unattended mode (auto-install), if guest OS type is > incompatible. > - disabled first-time wizard, if in unattended mode. > - AutoCompletion names during new VM creation: RHEL. > - enabled drag-n-drop and shared clipboard by default for new VMs > - GUI/New VM wizard: skip "unattended" section if not used. > - added option to disable Guest Additions install. > - GUI: added description to auto-install new VM wizard. > - several optimizations for Debian guests, leading to smaller > debian_boot.iso images. > > Overall it is more stable now, much more feature-complete and pleasant to > use. > > Available for Linux hosts or as source-code. > > Download here: > https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=67710&p=320651#p320651 > > Best wishes, > -- > -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev >
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