#8073 closed defect (invalid)
VirtualBox Extension Pack does not support all platforms
| Reported by: | Christer Solskogen | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | documentation | Version: | VirtualBox 4.0.0 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | other |
Description
The Download page says that the extension pack is for all platforms. That is not entirely true. The pack does not work for FreeBSD(yet?) The best solution would be that the pack do support FreeBSD ;-) But since I wont hold my breath on that one, the documentation should be updated.
Change History (8)
comment:1 by , 13 years ago
comment:2 by , 13 years ago
Sorry but (currently) we do not support FreeBSD as host operating system. We try to keep in compilable and runnable but there is no guarantee. And we do not (and never did) provide a PUEL package for FreeBSD.
comment:3 by , 13 years ago
Yes, but making the "extpack" just work unofficially could be a good solution, if some Oracle guy wants to support FreeBSD. Alexander Eicher ?
-Technologov
comment:4 by , 13 years ago
| Resolution: | → invalid |
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| Status: | new → closed |
I'm not fully sure what the problem here is. The official versions of VirtualBox (from Oracle) are noted in the manual and could be also seen on the download page of VirtualBox. All of them are supported with an extpack. Any other versions not under our control (the FreeBSD port is done and build by the FreeBSD community) will not get a extpack version, until Oracle is providing an official port. Beside that, there was never a PUEL version of FreeBSD VirtualBox.
comment:5 by , 13 years ago
That's why I said it should not state that is all for all platforms (it seemed to me that the extension was really multi-platform - I know now that, that is not the case)
comment:6 by , 13 years ago
Sorry, but from that point of view a package can never be all platforms. All platforms in our definition means all platforms we support.
comment:7 by , 13 years ago
Again, I don't understand your definition of multi-platform. Should we write we do not support OS2, Haiku, DOS or what else? The extpack has support for 4 platforms + 32/64bit. Its the *one* multi-platform package for our supported host platforms. We never stated it is platform independent.
comment:8 by , 13 years ago
I'm not going to enter the semantics :) Just move along, nothing more to see here.
Added myself as CC.
-Technologov