[Mageia-discuss] First impressions

Hoyt Duff hoytduff at gmail.com
Thu Feb 17 01:51:57 CET 2011


On 2/16/11, Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Op woensdag 16 februari 2011 23:45:20 schreef Hoyt Duff:
>> On 2/16/11, Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > i would like to have either a vboxvideo3 or a vesa detection workaround
>> > in the  installer, by the time we release.
>>
>> Excellent idea.
>
> except that it is not feasible.
>
> it appears there is no way to determine if the host is vbox4 or vbox3 from
> the
> guest perspective, thus we cannot do a workaround... :-(
>
> this could likely be a vbox3 bug, that horricle could fix... and mandriva
> could
> submit for updates...
>

It should be reported to Oracle as a bug. I have looked through their
bug database and don't see any existing references to it.
-- 
Hoyt


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