Add VirtualBox to Ubuntu
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Ubuntu |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
VirtualBox supplies a completely open-source version of its product under the GPL2. This virtualization suite uses an interesting method of virtualization in which it runs Ring-0 code in Ring-1 where possible; and where not, rewrites Ring-0 code to avoid trap-and-emulate conditions. This gives it speeds comparable to VMware in use, and thus would seem interesting for Ubuntu to ship as a Main-level virtualization product.
VirtualBox OSE should fit into Ubuntu as Free software due to its GPLv2 license, although I have not investigated if there are any traps such as a binary blob kernel driver. Due to its support for MacOSX and Microsoft Windows host OSes, Ubuntu could eventually offer it as a Free software demo on Windows and, once installed, allow the user to run the LiveCD with it.
| Vincent Legout (vlegout) wrote | #1 |
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 102098 and is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any information missing that you can add or to see if there is a work around. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.