[Mageia-discuss] First impressions

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op donderdag 17 februari 2011 01:51:57 schreef Hoyt Duff:
> 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.

they probably consider it end of life or something and clear everything from 
it.

if you want to, you can do it.