[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#817260: Wish: Replace virtualbox's guest BIOS with Coreboot

Gianfranco Costamagna locutusofborg at debian.org
Sat Jun 17 08:43:24 UTC 2017


>Can anyone link to the decision to remove Virtualbox? 


remove from *where*
>According to the Virtualbox ticket at https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/12011"

>By the way, we provide alternative sources (assembly) of the components that normally get built with OpenWatcom, so VirtualBox can be built without it.

yes, but auto generated assembly code is not really the preferred form of modification.

to quote a joke:
"Even Windows is open source, if you know assembly enough"

G.



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