Regarding VirtualBox - are there any plans to ship the VirtualBox Kernel Modules needed to run VirtualBox on a EOS Host? Personally i think this would open a huge amount of possibilities for EOS in terms of virtualization, especially 3D accelerated Windows guests (which is currently not possible with KVM)
Support for VirtualBox on Endless OS host
No plans as far as I know. Some thoughts:
- Presumably there is a tight coupling between the version of the kernel modules, and the version of VirtualBox itself.
- How to install VirtualBox the app, even if the modules are present?
- There was extensive discussion between Flatpak developers (including our own Rob McQueen and Matthew Leeds) and Michael Thayer from VirtualBox/Oracle about this a year or so back. It was rather inconclusive; aside from kernel drivers, there are parts of VirtualBox which must be setuid root – this is not really possible with Flatpak’s security model.
I tought about Endless delivering Virtualbox as a core application which runs as a native application in EOS 
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