The current situation is worrying me because about 99.9% of the code is contributed by Oracle, and only very small portions of the code are contributed by the community. Healthy OSS projects means at least 40% should be made by the OSS community.
By writing this, I decided to make our community aware of this situation.
In this list I summarize the community contributions to VirtualBox OSE:
Accepted New Features:
- Internationalization (Translations) (Since v1.4.0; except German and Russian)
- FreeBSD host support (co-developed by Oracle and the FreeBSD community) (Since v3.0.0)
- Mini-toolbar for Full-screen and seamless, by Huihong Luo of VMlite, rewritten by Oracle (Since v3.0.0)
- Virtual Distributed Ethernet, by Renzo Davoli (Linux hosts only) (Since v3.2.0)
- VNC Server (Since v3.2.0)
- 3D acceleration for 64-bit Windows guests (Since v3.2.2) (link)
- Shared Folders: symlinks by "bacam" (Linux guests only) (Since v4.0.0), Wish #818
- Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug #5578; Windows hosts only) (Since v4.0.0)
- UDP Tunnel networking mode, by Christophe Devriese (since v4.1.0)
- CPU exec cap in GUI, by "Technologov" (+Oracle) (since v4.1.0)
- USB Tablet support for Windows 98 guests, by stefan.becker (+Oracle) (since v4.1.0)
- Haiku operating system guest additions (source code, by Mike Smith, with Alexander von Gluck being his mentor) (since v4.2.0?). link
- few fixes by VMlite team, mostly better support for Microsoft VHD format (for v3.2.0 ?)
- Some documentation by "Technologov" (+Oracle) (2D troubleshooting + VDE + UDP tunnel) (since v4.1.0)
- PulseAudio fixes by Arthur Taylor (for v4.0.0 ?)
- Shared Folders improvements for Solaris Guests, by Ronald (since v4.1.x)
- shared folders for Windows fixes, by "helloworld" - link
- Windows 7 hardware Volume Licence Key, by 'scp' - link
updated version of the this: ACPI SLIC Patch, by Jan Schunk (scpcom/*AT*/gmx.de), Dec.2011. link - BIOS Floppy Int 13 AL = 0x17, AL = 0x18 operations (in maling-list, 2012-01-11) by Dave Meagher
- DirectSound patch, that lets target several sound cards (Windows Hosts only), by Ivo "UFO"
- vbox-unattended patch, by Technologov. Jan 2012. link
- Seamless mode, by Technologov, (May 2007, VBox 1.3-era), (part of openSUSE 10.3 docs) -- official support came in VBox 1.5 (Sep 2007)
- Mac OS X guest support, by Technologov, (Oct 2007, VBox 1.5-era), link -- official support came in VBox 3.2 (May 2010)
- Unattended Guest OS install, by Technologov, (Dec 2011, VBox 4.1-era), link
- Updating network interfaces list speed-up (link)
- detach/reattach (show/hide) the UI from a running VM window by "Technologov" - link
- 48 GB RAM per VM (for v3.1/3.2) - by HubTou - link (Irrelevant starting with VirtualBox 4.1)
- FreeBSD Guest Additions
- 16 vNICs per VM - by Technologov - link, Wish #8805
- VirtualBox GUI improvement - hides disabled options (VT-x, SMP and some networking) (by "Technologov")
- parport: Allow VMs to change the direction, by Bernhard Walle <bernhard /*AT*/ bwalle.de> -- Reason: Implemented by Oracle from scratch.
- vbox-python3: by Ilya Kulakov. Reason: patch is incomplete, doesn't patches XPCOM. link
-Technologov