[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#613458: /usr/share/virtualbox/VBox.sh: please include an e1000 PXE boot rom

[Michal Suchanek]

Package: virtualbox-ose
Version: 4.0.2-dfsg-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/share/virtualbox/VBox.sh


Hello

VirtualBox ships a PCNet boot rom (supposedly based on Etherboot) but
the e1000 boot rom is only available in non-free extpack.

Debian already includes Etherboot roms for e1000 used with qemu and kvm,
and there are newer roms which can be built from gPXE.

However, there is no documentation on installing roms in VirtualBox.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable'), (395, 'experimental'), (300, 'stable-i386'), (300, 'oldstable'), (280, 'testing-i386'), (270, 'unstable-i386'), (150, 'experimental-i386'), (65, 'oldstable-i386')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.36-r600fence-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.112+nmu2       add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-10        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcurl3                7.21.3-1         Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.4.5-10       GCC support library
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.44-1         PNG library - runtime
ii  libpython2.6            2.6.6-8+b1       Shared Python runtime library (ver
ii  libqtcore4              4:4.6.3-4        Qt 4 core module
ii  libqtgui4               4:4.6.3-4        Qt 4 GUI module
ii  libsdl1.2debian         1.2.14-6.1       Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libssl0.9.8             0.9.8o-4         SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc++6              4.6-20110125-1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libvncserver0           0.9.7-2+b1       API to write one's own vnc server
ii  libx11-6                2:1.3.3-4        X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1             1:1.1.11-1       X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                2:1.1.2-1        X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2                 2.7.8.dfsg-2     GNOME XML library
ii  libxmu6                 2:1.1.0-1        X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxt6                  1:1.0.7-1        X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  python                  2.6.6-3+squeeze5 interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-central          0.6.16+nmu1      register and build utility for Pyt
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose recommends:
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]    7.10-3       A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libqt4-opengl               4:4.6.3-4    Qt 4 OpenGL module
ii  virtualbox-ose-dkms         4.0.2-dfsg-1 x86 virtualization solution - kern
ii  virtualbox-ose-qt           4.0.2-dfsg-1 x86 virtualization solution - Qt b

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose suggests:
ii  libasound2                   1.0.23-2.1  shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libpulse0                    0.9.21-3+b1 PulseAudio client libraries
ii  vde2                         2.2.3-3     Virtual Distributed Ethernet
ii  virtualbox-guest-additions   3.2.10-1    guest additions iso image for Virt

-- debconf information:
* virtualbox-ose/upstream_version_change: true