On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 14:28 -0500, Perry Halbert wrote: > Squeeze came with the VirtualBox guest additions pre-installed, I > thought wheezy did to but wouldn't bet money on it without installing again. > So does openSUSE. > > Perhaps that is what Alexey was talking about. > > In any case trying to install the additions from VBox there is a warning > to remove the current ones first. > So there is a mechanism to verify. We do check for files which look like they belong to the Additions if we can't find a recognisable Additions installation and print that warning. From there to knowing how to uninstall a distribution version of the Additions on a random Linux distribution (although we officially only support a smallish number we try to keep things as generic as possible to ensure that the Additions work on most distributions in practice) is quite a large step.
Regards, Michael > On 08/30/2011 01:38 PM, Felix Geyer wrote: > > On 30.08.2011 18:21, Michael Thayer wrote: > >> One of the things I am worried about is situations like when the system > >> has installed some old Additions version and the user installs current > >> Additions following our instructions, and then the system does some > >> minor update, partly or fully overwriting our Additions and the end > >> result is not very pretty. > > The additions installer could detect if the distribution package is > > installed > > and offer to remove it. > > > > > > On 30.08.2011 19:00, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > >>> Do the other distributions do things like Ubuntu, or do they just > >>> install the package silently? > >> openSUSE, Debian and Mandriva just install GA silently. Yes, there is > >> a potential risk of over-writing new GA by doing minor update. (But so > >> far heard no complains about this from users) > > On Debian the guest additions package isn't silently installed. > > Users need to manually install it. -- ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Michael Thayer Werkstrasse 24 VirtualBox engineering 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:[email protected] Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der Ven _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
