On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Elad Alfassa elad@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Thomas Gilliard satellitgo@gmail.com wrote:
Is it possible to add VirtualBox to workstation. I understand that t is free software and only the extensions are for personal use.
No. We will not add VirtualBox.
I'd agree with that.
I don't think it's even packaged in Fedora due to licensing issue, and besides our virtualization platform is much more powerful, and our virtualization client app (GNOME Boxes) has a much superior UX.
As Thomas said, the bulk of VirtualBox is actually GPLv2 now as of version 4 I think. The licensing may be acceptable for Fedora with that version or newer. However, VirtualBox requires out-of-tree kernel modules, which aren't allowed in Fedora and we aren't going to ship those. Packaging or testing this isn't something the WG is going to work on.
josh