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VirtualBox has been packaged as a Flatpak (ursal.zone)

submitted 2 months ago by cm0002@lemmings.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't Virtualbox require kernel modules to run? How does that work in a flatpak?

[–] Maddier1993@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The backend is not virtualbox stuff but KVM stuff. Only the frontend is virtualbox. so one can claim that it's more apt to say this is "virtualbox-ui"

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Ohhhh right, completely forgot they have support for KVM now. Thanks!