[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#798527: virtualbox fails to work with systemd

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hi Ritesh,



>@Gianfranco: What is your opinion?

>
>I think we should add a, Depends: virtualbox-dkms (=
>${binary:Version}), so that virtualbox can pick it up. Currently, it is
>a Recommends.
>
>If you ask my opinion, I think we should promote it to Pre-Depends:
>virtualbox-dkms | virtualbox-source
>
>
>Is VBox useful without the kernel modules loaded ?


well, the user experience might be bad, bad graphics, 640x480 mode (or similar) and so on.

Unfortunately when people play with custom kernels there is no guarantee that dkms will work,
so I'm not sure forcing the dkms package is a good opinion

(yes, people should know how to play with custom kernels, nevermind).

So I have no opinion, either way some users might complain.

But the answer should be "yes, virtualbox runs even without the vboxdrv driver"
(at least IIRC)


cheers,

Gianfranco