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Please include VBoxGuestAdditions.iso with the packages that install virtualbox and virtualbox-current
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I'm putting this request here, because I'm not requesting that a new product package be created.
I'm just requesting that another file be added to an existing package.

According to the VirtualBox documentation, the guest additions .ISO should be located in the installation folder for VirtualBox. I suspect that they've been a separate download so that FOSS-only distributions are able to install VirtualBox without any of the non-FOSS device drivers and applications that the guest additions .ISO contains.

If this is not a constraint for Solus, it would help users to have them installed at the same time VirtualBox is. Then, the host computer would be able to insert them into the guest's DVD drive when required to do that, as per the user manual.

This would eliminate the requirement for a user to download them separately, which can be error-prone, and frustrating. At present, the web site for VirtualBox 7.0.10 doesn't even offer a link to download them.

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Note to anyone fulfilling this. You need to double check the license on the guest additions ISO to ensure that we (Solus) are able to legally re-distribute it. You should install the file to /usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso and also subpackage it out to a new subpackage (virtualbox-guest-additions-iso or similar).

TClark77 triaged this task as Normal priority.Sun, Aug 6, 9:49 PM