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If you provide binary Virtualbox drivers, sure. I'm not aware of any distributions that do that - they provide source instead. And signing external drivers requ
by mjg59 15y ago
If you provide binary Virtualbox drivers, sure. I'm not aware of any distributions that do that - they provide source instead. And signing external drivers requires auditing them to make sure that there's no way they can be exploited to execute arbitrary code, because if they can then you've just signed a malware loader and Microsoft (if they're serious about secure boot being about security) blacklist your key.
- lordlicorice 15y agoI don't think that makes sense since most Linux users don't even normally have a C compiler (let alone kernel headers) installed on their systems...
- mjg59 15y agoMost Linux users don't normally use any out of tree drivers. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox/Installation https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox/Installation indicates that Virtualbox is shipping via DKMS, which is infrastructure for automatically rebuilding the Virtualbox code every time the kernel is updated.
- lloeki 15y ago$ pacman -Ql virtualbox-modules virtualbox-modules /lib/ virtualbox-modules /lib/modules/ virtualbox-modules /lib/modules/extramodules-3.1-ARCH/ virtualbox-modules /lib/modules/extramodules-3.1-ARCH/vboxdrv.ko.gz virtualbox-modules /lib/modules/extramodules-3.1-ARCH/vboxnetadp.ko.gz virtualbox-modules /lib/modules/extramodules-3.1-ARCH/vboxnetflt.ko.gz virtualbox-modules /lib/modules/extramodules-3.1-ARCH/vboxpci.ko.gz Same for extra/nvidia, while extra/xf86-video-ati being quite up to snuff, so Catalyst drivers are in the AUR.