[vbox-dev] IPS package

Frank Mehnert frank.mehnert at oracle.com
Mon Mar 31 14:35:14 GMT 2014


Shahid,

sorry, what has your question to do with IPS?

Frank

On Monday 31 March 2014 16:00:08 Shahid wrote:
> Hi Ram,
> 
> Please suggest a solution to make my mouse work on my VM4.3.10 the latest
> one.
> 
> Environment: Host WIN7
> VM: Oracle VM4.3.10
> OS on VM:  Ubunto 12.04.
> 
> I have tried many option but still no result, Installed Guest Additions as
> well earlier but still my mouse not works on Ubunto screen.
> 
> Thanks & Regards
> Shahid
> Mob #8017625345
> 
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Ramshankar <
> 
> ramshankar.venkataraman at oracle.com> wrote:
> >  Hi,
> > 
> > Thanks for the work and the heads up, but before I look into this, a
> > couple of questions:
> > 
> > 1. Does the installation work without requiring reboots (drivers are
> > loaded and active after installation)?
> > 
> > 2. Does upgrading VirtualBox versions work without requiring reboots (old
> > drivers are unloaded, removed and new ones are installed and loaded) ?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Ram.
> > 
> > On 03/30/2014 03:42 PM, Thomas Gouverneur wrote:
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I'm writing today because I've been asked some time ago to write a
> > converter from SVR to IPS packages for VirtualBox to allow the
> > installation
> > of VirtualBox and of the extension pack through IPS. I wonder now if this
> > work can be useful upstream too?!
> > 
> > I published the scripts there: https://github.com/tgouverneur/VBox-SVR2IPS
> > And an example repository can be found there:
> > http://mdma.igh.cnrs.fr/vbox/en/catalog.shtml?show_all_versions=1&action=
> > Refresh
> > 
> > The repository has been built with the VirtualBox.org's packages converted
> > using the scripts present inside the GitHub repository listed below.
> > 
> > NOTE: This repo has only been tested with Solaris 11.1.
> > 
> > Any idea with who I could start the discussion to see what would those
> > package be missing to allow a possible upstream adoption, so we can all
> > have IPS upstream packages of VirtualBox in the future?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > --Thomas
> > 
> > 
> > 
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