Re: Virtualbox guest extensions drivers to be included in kernel tree
francis.garcia@umontpellier.fr
Hi Emmanuel,
On 28/04/20 at 11:40 +0200, Emmanuel Kasper wrote:
> Hi Lucas
>
> While working on building the vagrant boxes with FAI, I noticed that
> some virtualbox drivers where loaded altough I didn't compile them with
> DKMS.
>
> It turns out that the vbox video driver is already included in
> the kernel tree and in the buster kernel, and that the vbox shared
> folder driver is coming too:
>
> ```
> dpkg -L linux-image-4.19.0-8-amd64 | grep 'vbox.*ko'
> /lib/modules/4.19.0-8-amd64/kernel/drivers/staging/vboxvideo/vboxvideo.ko
> /lib/modules/4.19.0-8-amd64/kernel/drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest.ko
> ```
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5586c3c1e0eb04cb8b16684aef779e019c8cc64e
>
> This means that we have a chance to drop the contrib boxes for bullseyes
> and our users will have a much nicer experience ouf of the box using the
> official boxes :)
>
> The initial drive for this came from Fedora people, who wanted a better
> out of the box experience within VirtualBox for people using their live CD.
.... And it has been enabled in 5.7:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=961516
Once it migrates to testing, we can drop contrib-testing64! Wow!
Lucas
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