[vbox-dev] Ubuntu 15.04 carrying vbox modules in kernel

[Michael Thayer]

Hello Ben,

Just for clarification, are you talking about the VirtualBox guest 
modules, host modules or both?

Regards,

Michael

On 12.02.2015 20:08, Ben Howard wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I am on the team that builds the Ubuntu Cloud and Vagrant Images. Over
> the last year or so we have watched projects like Vagrant and the
> user-experience of Ubuntu within Virtualbox. We want to improve the
> experience for users.
>
> One area that we spotted for improvement is the DKMS modules. In
> general, while DMKS modules are a great solution, the dependency tree is
> huge (bloats an image by several hundred MB). As a result, we have
> decided to include the Virtualbox modules into our kernel.
>
> There are several really good reasons for including the DKMS modules in
> the kernel. For our Vagrant users, including the modules in the kernel
> means that we can distribute small images. And for the new Ubuntu Core
> images, the Virtualbox userland can be Snap packaged.
>
> We wanted to communicate this decision and gather any feedback.
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> Thanks,
> Ben
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> Ben Howard
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> Canonical
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