[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#691148: Please package virtualbox 4.2.2

[Felix Geyer]

On 22.10.2012 09:49, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> Package: virtualbox
> Version: 4.1.18-dfsg-1.1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hey,
>
> While virtualbox 4.1.18 seems to work well, its guest additions can't cope with
> newer kernels (e.g. 3.5) and newere Xorg (1.13). Even though these aren't
> the default in debian yet, this makes it hard to run a virtualbox iwth guest
> additions for other linux based platforms. Having virtualbox 4.2.2 available
> (e.g. in experimental) would be very nice 

Agreed, though virtualbox 4.2 is not DFSG-free [1] anymore which doesn't exactly
motivate me to invest time into this package.

Felix


[1] The BIOS requires a non-free compiler (Open Watcom) to build.