Task #9349 (closed)
Opened 7 years ago
Closed 7 years ago
Bug: Virtual Appliance uses old VBox Guest Additions
| Reported by: | bpindelski | Owned by: | cmacleod-x |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | OMERO-4.4.4 |
| Component: | Deployment | Version: | n.a. |
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| Resources: | n.a. | Referenced By: | n.a. |
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Description
Virtual Appliance uses old VirtualBox? guest additions. When using the VM in VBox 4.1.18, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+Z don't work as expected.
Change History (4)
comment:1 Changed 7 years ago by bpindelski
- Summary changed from Bug: Virtual Appliance uses old VBox Gues Additions to Bug: Virtual Appliance uses old VBox Guest Additions
comment:2 Changed 7 years ago by cmacleod-x
comment:3 Changed 7 years ago by bpindelski
Chris, I've done some research in that area recently and I'm not sure the Additions would even help (cf. https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=49919). The fact that the installation also needs kernel headers needs to be take into account (when they update, the Additions need to be recompiled).
comment:4 Changed 7 years ago by cmacleod-x
- Resolution set to wontfix
- Status changed from new to closed
AFter discussing with Blazej. The latest virtualbox guest additions don't address the keyboard issues. In addition the rapid release schedule of VirtualBox? and the Additions make keeping in lockstep with it not worth the effort considering the 'value' offered. We will leave guest additions as an exercise for the reader and focus documentation and education on ssh based connections to the virtual appliance.
We need to make a decision on how often we are going to chase the Guest Addition releases. Virtualbox updates pretty often (generally much more frequently than we do). Do we push VM releases based on VirtualBox?'s release schedule or only on our own release schedule?