[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#611613: Bug#611613: virtualbox-ose-qt: Interface allows to configure RDP and USB

[Frank Mehnert]

On Monday 31 January 2011 10:25:03 Vincent Bernat wrote:
> The GUI allows to configure RDP (remote desktop) and USB while those
> functionalities are only available in the proprietary version.
> Enabling those functionalities does nothing. This may be disturbing
> for the user not aware of the differences between OSE and non-OSE.

That's not entirely true. Try to install the extension pack, it should
work with the Debian build as well. In fact, there is no real "OSE"
version anymore, only the normal source code (which is freely available
under GPLv2 from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads) and the
extension pack. The Linux packages at www.virtualbox.org use in fact
the same sources like the packages from the Debian maintainers.

Back to your question: If you enable USB 2.0 (USB 1.1 is part of the
public sources) then you will get a message that you should install
the extension pack. After doing so, you can use that features. Therefore
it is correct to keep the USB / RDP VM settings.

Kind regards,

Frank
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