If the vboxsf driver does not get accepted upstream in time we can ship with VirtualBox guest integration without shared-folder support. The separate vboxsf kernel-driver has been submitted upstream and is awaiting review upstream.

The VirtualBox guest drivers have been merged into linux-next and will be in 4.16, the kernel-release with which F28 will ship.

VirtualBox Guest Additions package to the default package list for the Workstation product.īetter integration with VirtualBox leads to a much better user-experience for users who decide to run Fedora under VirtualBox.

This change is about adding the guest-drivers to the Fedora kernel package, packaging the userspace-tools (VirtualBox Guest Additions) and adding the

Like other virtual-machines VirtualBox virtual-machines can offer an enhanced user-experience when some VirtualBox specific guest-drivers and guest-tools are installed.

As such it is important for Fedora to work well in VirtualBox virtual-machines. MacOS and Linux and is used by many users to try it Linux for the first time.

The purpose of this change is to ship the VirtualBox guest-drivers and -tools by default in the Fedora workstation product. VirtualBox is popular, easy to use virtual-machine software.

Fedora 26 virtualbox guest additions