[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#626406: Bug#626406: virtualbox-ose-guest-utils: Does not work, or Do not understand what it is useful for

[Michael Meskes]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:10:00AM +0200, Eugen Dedu wrote:
> So virtualbox-ose-guest-utils is to be installed on guest.  As it is

As the documentation already says.

> a debian package, it is to be installed (it works) only on Debian
> guests.  Then why is it about "non-X11 guest utilities", since the
> Debian guest is a X11 system?  On Debian guest, only
> virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 should exist.

Please read the docs before asking the developers. There are guest tools for
usage with X11 like a video driver and those that can be used even without X
like the shared folders.

Michael
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