Please include VBoxHDD.h to allow for packaging of vdfuse

[michael]

Binary package hint: virtualbox-ose

I was evaluating the packaging of vdfuse [0] that allows to mount any
disk image supported by VirtualBox as a FUSE (filesystem in userspace).
However, it relies on having VBoxHDD.h (and some dependent headers from
the virtualbox-ose source package) being available.

Please, include these headers in any of the *-source packages, or add
another one.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: virtualbox-ose 3.2.8-dfsg-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Nov 12 06:42:59 2010
LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101008.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: virtualbox-ose

[Felix Geyer (debfx)]

vdfuse is already packaged: virtualbox-ose-fuse

[oriolpont (oriolpont)]

VBoxHDD.h is no longer included in uptstream virtualbox-ose. As a consequence, we cannot compile the vdfuse from virtualbox forum anymore.

The package virtualbox-fuse could be an alternative, however it pulls virtualbox-ose conflicting with virtualbox-puel. PUEL users still need vdfuse. I would suggest to make virtualbox-fuse package independent from virtualbox.

A workaround consists in qemu-nbd, which can read and loopmount vdi images.

[Felix Geyer (debfx)]

You should really discuss that with upstream and not on the launchpad bug tracker.
I think guestmount (from libguestfs) can also mount vdi images.

> I would suggest to make virtualbox-fuse package independent from virtualbox.

That's not possible since it needs the virtualbox libraries it was built against.

[oriolpont (oriolpont)]

Sorry I have not been clear enough:

The binary virtualbox-fuse vdfuse works equally well with either virtualbox-ose or virtualbox (PUEL).

Presently, it requires as dependency the ose package only. Installing it forces uninstalling the puel package.

Making it an "or" dependency of virtualbox- ose or puel would make it work in either case, i.e., also for puel users .