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

Vincent Bernat bernat at debian.org
Mon Jan 31 17:59:15 UTC 2011


OoO En  cette matinée  pluvieuse du lundi  31 janvier 2011,  vers 10:40,
Frank Mehnert <frank.mehnert at oracle.com> disait :

>> 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.

I wasn't aware of this change. Keeping USB/RDP settings is fine for me.
-- 
 /*
  *   Should be panic but... (Why are BSD people panic obsessed ??)
  */
	2.0.38 /usr/src/linux/net/ipv4/ip_fw.c
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 197 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-virtualbox-devel/attachments/20110131/c97407fb/attachment-0003.pgp>


More information about the Pkg-virtualbox-devel mailing list