On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 5:43 AM Jonathan Billings billings@negate.org wrote:
On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 09:42:55AM +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
<rant> And I'm glad to begin chapter 2 of my Introduction To Linux with something like "Well, folks, unfortunately you can't select a custom keyboard layout in VirtualBox because the enterprise class Linux we talked about in chapter 1 has a bug in the kernel so for now the default keyboard layout will have to be sufficient.</rant>
I suppose this shows you how little Red Hat cares about using VirtualBox (product by their competition).
If I were running a VM on a linux system, I'd probably use KVM/qemu/libvirt. I'm sure that was exhaustively tested.
You guys are overreacting. :)
The bug was in a patch applied to the upstream (kernel.org) kernel version 4.17. Therefore any distribution running this kernel was affected -- including Fedora and SuSE. Red Hat backports upstream patches and this particular one was one of them.
By the way, there is a nicely written article about VirtualBox at RH:
https://developers.redhat.com/products/rhel/hello-world/#virtualbox
along with other VM technologies.
Akemi