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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
by 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.