I would be interested in the VRDP piece as well and contributing to the
cost of developing/purchasing it.
Citrix just open sourced XenServer, the whole stack, there is no
difference now between the commercial offering and the open source
version; except for support.
Redhat's KVM hypervisor is open.
Here is hoping that one day Oracle releases VRDP under an open source
license. As Pau writes below, you can't buy an OEM version; therefore
they aren't monetizing it on the server side, except for their Secure
Global Desktop.
On 13-07-19 10:59 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
Hello,
We developed our own RDP-like protocol for use with WPF. It's quite
naïve (take IFrameBuffer and send PNG's with the changed area, then
paint it) but it works fine for LANs, which is our use case. It's GPL
and developed in C#. We developed it for two reasons:
- The most important one: it was impossible to OEM license VirtualBox.
We contacted Sun, then Oracle, multiple times for years. In the end,
our product was ready to sell and still had no OEM licensing rates
(just a "you can distribute it for free for now")
- Also important: embedding the RDP ActiveX in WPF causes all sorts of
problems. We literally spent man-months debugging this and
implementing all kind of workarounds. Our own implementation was ready
in less than a week by one person.
Maybe KickStarting a fully opensource (BSD license, please) Guest
Additions would get traction.
What worries me is whether an initiative like this would definitely
kill VirtualBox. Oracle recently nixed every virtualization product it
inherited from Sun but VirtualBox.
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Huihong Luo <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
As for vrdp, I've been working on using FreeRDP, not fully working
yet, but it is very positive, also made the remoteUSB to work too.
For the remaining portions of the extension pack, I don't have any
ideas. Basically, USB + VRDP considered to be done, provided a
nice payment. It took me one year.
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*From:* Oliver Loch <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
*To:* Huihong Luo <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
*Cc:* Joachim Schiele <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>; "[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
*Sent:* Friday, July 19, 2013 10:30 AM
*Subject:* Re: [vbox-dev] VirtualBox Extension Pack going GPL?
Gimme your bank account I'll send you an Euro for your effort.
Am 19.07.2013 um 19:21 schrieb Huihong Luo <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
I do have a complete implementation of the USB 2.0 (fully
compatible to vbox), if someone pays, I can submit my code as
open source.
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*From:* Joachim Schiele <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Friday, July 19, 2013 8:50 AM
*Subject:* [vbox-dev] VirtualBox Extension Pack going GPL?
dear vbox developers and users,
i would like to get the proprietary parts, especially the VirtualBox
Extension Pack, open source. most of VirtualBox is already open
source,
which is a good thing in several regards:
- quality of distro integration and
- debugging
getting basic OSE virtualbox support is straight forward and
better than
any other solution i tried (i'm on linux, i tried vmware/libvirt)
for
desktop virtualization.
in contrast to OSE virtualbox, installing VBox extension pack is
a PITA:
- http://nixos.org/wiki/Installing_VirtualBox_on_NixOS
- http://forums-web2.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-717099-start-0.html
- http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/VirtualBox/Installation#Extension-Pack
it usually forces me to manually download the extension pack which
interrupts my whole upgrade process. and i have to do that on each
upgrade of my system which really costs a lot of time. so here is my
proposal:
we try to get the 'USB 2.0 support codebase' of the 'VirtualBox
Extension Pack' open source!
VirtualBox Extension Pack consists of:
* support for USB 2.0 devices
* VirtualBox RDP and PXE boot for Intel cards
* VirtualBox Remote Desktop Protocol (VRDP) support
* Experimental support for PCI passthrough on Linux hosts
i would like to start with the USB 2.0 support becoming open
source and
i think we have several options:
== 1 ==
oracle releases the 'oracle USB 2.0 codebase' as GPL for free -
is that
an option?
== 2 ==
we finance the 'oracle USB 2.0 codebase' GPL release via kickstarter
(how much would oracle want for their code?)
== 3 ==
we have the specification so we could finance a 'third party GPL
USB 2.0
codebase', we could finance this via kickstarter as well
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