[clue-tech] A little sidux humor

[Collins Richey]

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Peter Kuykendall
<peterkuykendall at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> And does VirtualBox really rock like that thread says it does?
>
>
>>Most people on Sidux seem to swear by it, in the same fashion you
> treat a standard utility. The free version of it has a few
> limitations, such as usb, or it did the last time I tried it out.
> There is also a for-hire version.
>
> I've been fooling with the free version under Ubuntu Hardy for a few weeks now.  It's a hassle because the free version isn't in the Hardy distros yet.  VirtualBox OSE requires a new version of the kernel than what Hardy runs, and that version is not fully supported by Hardy yet.  One artifact is that it breaks sound support because it doesn't include the sound drivers and I don't feel like incurring the brain damage to track it all down and manually install it..  So for now I boot into 2.6.24-19 for most activity, then reboot into 2.6.24-20 w/o sound when experimenting with VirtualBox.
>
> I have run a few VMs under VirtualBox, including Win2K and Win XP.  Both worked fine with no problems.  USB support is there.
>

I'll have to put up a query on the Sidux forum, since my experience is
not recent. Sidux (via the smxi maintenance script) has complete
support for any kernel stuff that is necessary, and the Sidux kernel
developer is top notch, so I doubt that any of the problems you
mention are there on sid-level software.

> I assume that eventually Hardy will either support VirtualBox OSE (Open Source Edition) (the free one) as part of the official distribution, or will support the -20 kernel with sound drivers (and whatever other drivers are missing that I have not discovered yet).
>

The -20 kernel is pretty old news. Sid/sidux is on 2.6.26-3.slh.1-sidux-686.


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