Mageia not listed under OS -> won't fix (not in DMTF/CIM)

[leuhmanu]

Mageia with Virtualbox works very well, but it isn't available as an OS in Virtualxox, could you please add it?

​http://www.mageia.org/

regards,

[Michael Thayer]

As far as I know, Mageia is a variant on Mandriva, isn't it? The OS type is mainly to tell VirtualBox to adjust a few (very few) parameters to fit the guest it is to run, so selecting Mandriva should be quite good enough here.

[Thomas Backlund]

Mageia icon

[Thomas Backlund]

Mageia 64 bit icon

[Thomas Backlund]

Remove duplicate text from french installation manual

[Thomas Backlund]

Add Mageia support to Virtualbox

[Thomas Backlund]

Hi,

Yes Mageia is/was a fork of Mandriva, but we are diverging more from each other so I think it is justified to add Mageia support too (and nicer to our endusers). (for now we use pretty much the same config as Mandriva,

but I might provide a few changes later, when we (at Mageia) have discussed them)

Attached are tested patches + icons for adding support in 4.1.4.

The only thing I'm unsure about is how to handle the different CIMOSType_CIMOS_* lists as:

Theese stops at 102: src/VBox/Main/cbinding/VBoxCAPI_v2_2.h src/VBox/Main/cbinding/VBoxCAPI_v3_0.h

THis one goes to 110: src/VBox/Main/include/ovfreader.h

I just used 111 and 112 for Mageia for now.

Oh, and When I added Mageia info to the install manual I noticed some duplicated text in the french one. See the attached patch.

[Michael Thayer]

Thanks for spotting the user manual text duplication. If you are interested in the French translation of the manual you might get in touch with the translator (Jean-Phillipe Mengual, Texou on freenode/#vbox-dev or see https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-dev/2011-July/004390.html).

I'm afraid that I won't apply your other patch, as we are very reluctant to add items to the OS list (we have plans if we ever get round to it to remove the hard-coded list altogether so that users can configure their own entries), and a lot of the rest just duplicates existing things. Particularly in the Additions installer I would rather get rid of the distribution-specific bits and not add new ones which don't add value.

[Thomas Backlund]

Ok, Thanks for the info.

I have done our patch set for both 4.0.14 and 4.1.4 branch so I can maintain them in our svn.

Can you comment on the differences in the CIMOSType_CIMOS_* lists?

And as a suggestion for upcoming releases, try to make it easy to preconfigure "standard" virtualbox vm for endusers.

[Michael Thayer]

Regarding CIM, please see ​http://dmtf.org/standards/cim. I really don't think you want to be touching that. Please also see the attached patch. And I really don't think that you need to add references to Mageia into source comments or places the user will never see - that looks more like an attempt to boost Google ratings than anything else.

[Michael Thayer]

Handle Linux distributions more generically in a couple of places

[Thomas Backlund]

Thanks for the CIM info, and for the suggested patch.

The reason for adding Mageia all over was not for google ratings...

It's simply a result of grepping the tree for Mandiva and adding Mageia to the places found

[Michael Thayer]

See r39121. Not changed the NLS files as that text currently never seems to get shown anyway. And thinking about the issue for a bit, we decided to keep the OS list as it is for the time being as more or less tracking the CIM/DMTF list makes sense for us for importing and exporting. You could try talking to them of course...

So if you don't mind I will close this ticket again.

[Michael Thayer]

Actually you missed one place where I think a change really is justified - the New VM wizard. See r39919.