[vbox-dev] integrating virtualbox better into a linux system

[Ismail Dönmez]

On Wednesday 31 January 2007 21:09:06 Michael Thayer wrote:
> Hello Marcus,
>
> At the moment, we create links in /usr/bin to a script in the main
> VirtualBox directory.  Is there a particular reason not to install to
> /opt, as we do now?  Personally, I prefer applications which were not
> installed through my distributions package system to be put somewhere I
> can clearly see rather than scattered around my system.  That means that
> if the uninstaller doesn't work for some reason, I can remove them more
> easily (I know that that will not happen with VirtualBox of course :)
>
> I assume though that VirtualBox packages will soon start to appear in
> Linux distributions, and they will package them to best fit in with the
> rest of their system.

Well imho the biggest problem is starting XPCOM server before the main client. 
Can't VBox handle the XPCOM server startup itself?

Regards,
ismail