VirtualBox 3.1.8 released... support for Lucid Lynx.

[Gilles Gravier]

Dotan,

On 10/05/2010 17:02, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> Among other fixes it contains support for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx hosts.
>>
>>     
> Thanks, Gilles. Why does support for a specific Linux distro have to
> be enabled? Is there something fundamentally different about Lucid
> Lynx that needs special support? I can understand coding support for
> different OSes, such as Windows, but for yet another Linux distro?
>   
I don't know the specifics, but for example when Ubuntu introduced
AppArmor, applications that used IPCs to communicate with other
components (think MySQL and PHP) needed to be adapted (my Logitech
Squeezeserver had to be udpated)... differences in kernel, differences
in networking stack at low level (VirtualBox interfaces INSIDE the
networking stack to enable things like NAT or bridging with the host
network cards)...

VirtualBox is a complex application that has kernel-level interactions
with the host...

Gilles.