>> Hi Asheesh & Antonio >> First thanks for the interest on these boxes. >> >> After some second thought, I agreee on that. >> I will re enable the vboxfs in the Vagrant Box and move that to a >> "contrib" namespace. >> > > Yay! Thanks so much. > > BTW, one other note: > > The VirtualBox shared files kernel module appears to be fully free > software. It seems to be an accident of history that the kernel modules > live in the same source package as the VirtualBox BIOS; see my mail here: > https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-virtualbox-devel/2015-December/005610.html Hi Asheesh Yes, it is also my opinion that the kernel modules could be moved to main, (similar to the vmware guest kernel modules, which are all in main since they're included in the vanilla kernel) Now splitting a source package of the size of virtualbox looks anything but trivial for me, but you might have more experience there ! In the meantime, I have created a box with the vboxsf module at debian/contrib-jessie64. I will push the definitive packer template when the debian scm server works again, if you want to co maintain or maintain the template. Emmanuel
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