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

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

On Thu, 2015-09-10 at 17:42 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> Dear Ritesh,
> Thank you for getting in touch quickly. The reason you didn't get to
> know about dkms is because I already had installed the dkms package.
> I
> had to play it a few times before realizing that I needed not only
> dkms package but also virtualbox-dkms package and now it seems
> virtualbox-guest-dkms as well (not sure) which in turn depends upon
> virtualbox-guest-utils.
> 


The guest packages (guest-utils and guest-dkms) are needed inside the
GUest VM.

> My main aim at the time was to share about the unavailability of a
> .service file.
> 
> I did do the usual :-
> 
> $dpkg -L $PackageName | grep service
> 
> before coming to the conclusion that there are systemd service files.
> 

No. We are not shipping any service file. What you saw was interpreted
through the systemd-sysv-generator tool.

-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
Debian - The Universal Operating System
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