[vbox-dev] Guest/Host interactions

Frédéric Dreier frederic at dreier.cc
Thu Feb 28 09:28:07 GMT 2008


> It's certainly not impossible, bit it's a lot of work (and involves 
> quite a bit of system programming). And as the windows guest additions 
> aren't completely available in the open source edition (due to copyright 
> issues, as it's almost impossible writing a windows driver from scratch 
> without using driver source code samples (c) microsoft, which prohibits 
> releasing the source), it's pretty tough.
>
>   

Does it means that if I download virtualbox from SVN and compile it, it 
will not support microsoft OS as guest? Or is binary libraries in SVN?

Regards,
Frédéric




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