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

Felix Geyer fgeyer at debian.org
Mon Nov 12 10:45:44 UTC 2012


On 12.11.2012 11:28, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
>> Agreed, though virtualbox 4.2 is not DFSG-free [1] anymore which doesn't exactly
>> motivate me to invest time into this package.
> Can you elaborate ?
> I'm not aware of any changes in the VBox BIOS.
>
> AFAIK VBox BIOS was always based on the bochs BIOS, not anymore ?

I don't know the details but they said bcc was too buggy so they ported
the BIOS for Open Watcom.

This commit might be interesting:
https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/38699/vbox

Felix



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