Not only that.
In past oracle lawyers have send huge bills to companies after someone in their IP range had used virtualbox guest editions (which is not free for commercial use).
In past oracle lawyers have send huge bills to companies after someone in their IP range had used virtualbox guest editions (which is not free for commercial use).
This is false. https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ says:
> the VirtualBox Guest Additions are licensed under the GPLv2.
You might have been thinking of the VirtualBox Extension Pack, which is an entirely different thing.
Oracle could not milk VirtualBox for money so they used this as a way to extort unknowing commercial users.
Even if it isn't reasonable to do so, I suspect most people do indeed do so, and that's exactly what Oracle is counting on.
Where in the App does it download the extensions? I know it will download the Guest Additions for you, but those are something completely different.
1: https://docs.oracle.com/en/virtualization/virtualbox/6.0/use...
When it finally came down to PCIe pass through to get better 3D support I moved to qemu/kvm, no one forced me to pirate Oracles software for that. Of course qemu/kvm can be an absolute shit show to configure, so I still default to Virtual Box.
You are confusing the Guest Additions (free, FOSS, included in many distros) and the Extension Pack (commercial/proprietary, freeware for personal/non-commercial use.)
I have had to explain this within the last fortnight; read that.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/d1ttzp/oracle_is_...
The Guest Additions are capital F Free.
The Extension Pack is not.
There is no such thing as "the Oracle guest addition extension pack." Never has been.
You are conflating 2 totally different separate things, as is that Redditor.
Exactly what it was called is not important. The point is that you needed it and Oracle later made it a torpedo cost.
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
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.