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Sorry, I did in fact mean extension pack. The FOSS one have not always been available/complete hence in past a lot of companies had no choice other than using t

Sorry, I did in fact mean extension pack. The FOSS one have not always been available/complete hence in past a lot of companies had no choice other than using the Oracle guest addition extension pack. Which resulted in situations like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/d1ttzp/oracle_is_going_after_companies_using_virtualbox/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/d1ttzp/oracle_is_...

lproven 3y ago
No, you are still wrong. The Guest Additions are capital F Free. The Extension Pack is not. There is no such thing as "the Oracle guest addition extension pack." Never has been. You are conflating 2 totally different separate things, as is that Redditor.
- kramerger 3y ago
  Extension Pack used to include the guest tools almost everyone needed. Exactly what it was called is not important. The point is that you needed it and Oracle later made it a torpedo cost.
  - lproven 3y ago
    [[Citation needed]] I think you are wrong. The Guest Additions (GAs) are not part of the Extension Pack (EP). As far as I can recall, after I think 15 years of using VirtualBox now, the GAs never were part of the EP. The GAs are FOSS. The EP is not FOSS. Since VirtualBox 4.0, released December 22, 2010, the core product has been FOSS and the proprietary bits were in the EP and only the EP. https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/News_pre_4_3 https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/News_pre_4_3 VirtualBox 2 and 3 had separate freeware PUEL and Open Source editions (OSE), but that is back in the noughties. You are reaching back nearly 15 years here to get to when the product was not all-FOSS. I think you are confusing the names and the descriptions of the two totally separate add-ons, one of which is a proprietary addon to the hypervisor itself, and the other of which is a FOSS addon to the OS running inside the VM.

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Sorry, I did in fact mean extension pack. The FOSS one have not always been available/complete hence in past a lot of companies had no choice other than using t

by kramerger 3y ago

lproven 3y ago
No, you are still wrong. The Guest Additions are capital F Free. The Extension Pack is not. There is no such thing as "the Oracle guest addition extension pack." Never has been. You are conflating 2 totally different separate things, as is that Redditor.
- kramerger 3y ago
  Extension Pack used to include the guest tools almost everyone needed. Exactly what it was called is not important. The point is that you needed it and Oracle later made it a torpedo cost.
  - lproven 3y ago
    [[Citation needed]] I think you are wrong. The Guest Additions (GAs) are not part of the Extension Pack (EP). As far as I can recall, after I think 15 years of using VirtualBox now, the GAs never were part of the EP. The GAs are FOSS. The EP is not FOSS. Since VirtualBox 4.0, released December 22, 2010, the core product has been FOSS and the proprietary bits were in the EP and only the EP. https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/News_pre_4_3 https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/News_pre_4_3 VirtualBox 2 and 3 had separate freeware PUEL and Open Source editions (OSE), but that is back in the noughties. You are reaching back nearly 15 years here to get to when the product was not all-FOSS. I think you are confusing the names and the descriptions of the two totally separate add-ons, one of which is a proprietary addon to the hypervisor itself, and the other of which is a FOSS addon to the OS running inside the VM.