Re: virtualbox-dkms fails to build with 3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64 kernel
On 12/03/14 21:24, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Nick <debian-backports@njw.me.uk> wrote:
>> Quoth Matt Palmer:
>>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:45:47AM -0400, Nick wrote:
>>>> However when I try to install the virtualbox-dkms package I get
>>>> an error. The output of
>>>> /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/4.1.18/build/make.log is:
>>>
>>> No wai! I hit this problem earlier today.
>>
>> Great minds... ;)
>>
>>> The problem is in Virtualbox -- the old version you're building the modules
>>> of hasn't been updated for the change in data structure in the kernel (it's
>>> related to a build option in the kernel, I believe). Running the
>>> virtualbox{,-dkms} from wheezy-backports works just fine.
>>
>> Aha, I didn't see the backported virtualbox packages, because they
>> all appear to be in non-free in backports (despite being in main in
>> Debian). Is this just an oversight after they changed their license?
>
> Building virtualbox's BIOS as of >= 4.2 requires the use of a compiler
> that's not DFSG-free (and shipping with EFI support only in the vbox
> packages was determined to be a bad idea by the maintainer), hence the
> move to contrib. See bug #691148 for details.
>
I was able to patch the modules from wheezy/main to work with newer
kernels, details in the bug tracker
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