VirtualBox Extensions Pack (for USB and Video)

[Tomasz CEDRO]

On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 8:25 PM Jung-uk Kim <jkim at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 19. 5. 2., Tomasz CEDRO wrote:
> > Hello world!
> > Are there any plans to implement VirtualBox Extension Pack on FreeBSD?
> > That would allow USB 2.0 + 3.0 support and better screen acceleration
> > + integration, etc. USB support seems most desirable and important,
> > especially for hardware hacking which is quite limited at the moment
> > to USB 1.0. With great USB stack that FreeBSD already has it should be
> > possible to implement those Extensions for VirtualBox right? :-)
>
> Unfortunately, there is no way to port VirtualBox Extension Pack because
> it is NOT open sourced.  In fact, it is governed by a different license.
> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL
> Jung-uk Kim

Thank you Kim! Did not realize that ugly licensing of the Extension
Pack (except its buggy as hell and allows hijacking the hypervisor
host machine).

But, if the Core VirtualBox is GPL2 then API should be open too and
maybe its time for some Open-Source alternative? :-)

@HPS have you ever considered such operation? If the FreeBSD's USB can
be shared to the userland, maybe that could be also shared to the
Virtual Machine?

Best regards,
Tomek

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