Re: Bug in vboxguest: After commit Merge tag 'char-misc-4.17-rc3'

[damian <linux_dti@icloud.com>]

On Wed, 09. May 09:36, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 08-05-18 21:41, damian wrote:
> >On Tue, 08. May 13:42, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >>Hi Damian,
> >>
> >>On 02-05-18 22:46, damian wrote:
> >>>Hello Greg,
> >>>
> >>>it is PATCH 3 virt: vbox: Use __get_free_pages insteas of kmalloc for DMA32 memory.
> >>
> >>Thank you for the bug report, I've tried to reproduce this problem
> >>but for me everything works fine.
> >>
> >>Does your virtual-machine have more then 4G of RAM configured for its
> >>use?  If yes then what is likely happening is that you also have
> >>the out-of-tree version of the vboxguest modules installed and prior
> >>to the commit in question the out of tree version of the driver is
> >>loading, because before that commit the vboxguest driver in the
> >>mainline kernel fails to load on machines with more then 4G.
> >>
> >>Or alternatively before the commit in question you may not have
> >>any version of the vboxguest driver loaded.
> >>
> >>Using the upstream version of the driver should not make a noticeable
> >>difference, but before the vboxguest driver became a part of the
> >>mainline kernel the virtualbox upstream developers have done a
> >>cleanup / redesign of the userspace API of the vboxguest driver,
> >>so the vboxguest driver will only work with recent virtualbox-guest-additions
> >>and since you are using Ubuntu 16.04 chances are that you are
> >>using that with Ubuntu's quite old bundled virtualbox-guest-additions
> >>which will not work with the new driver and may be causing this
> >>issue.
> >>
> >>Can you try upgrading your virtualbox-guest-additions to 5.2.10
> >>please?
> >>
> >>Also if the above does not help, a couple of follow up
> >>questions to help this pin down further:
> >>
> >>1) Are you using vbox's 3d pass through functionality
> >>2) Which desktop-environment are you using?
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>
> >>Hans
> >
> >Hi Hans,
> >
> >i will check my configutation and will come back
> >At the moment i dont use use the virtualbox-guest-additions, i use the driver from the staging area.
> 
> Ah I see, you may still have the Ubuntu pkg for them installed though,
> which may be an old version which actually starts to try and do stuff
> now that there is a vboxguest driver in mainline too, but that old
> version does not support the new, stable API as merged into the
> mainline.
> 
> So if you don't care about the add-ons instead of upgrading yopu
> can also remove the Ubuntu pkg for them.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans

Hello Hans,

the reason why i dont use the virtual-guest-additions from virtualbox is the following with kernel 4.14rc4:

there are changes in the kernel and this need time to fix in virtualbox. 


  CC [M]  /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-5.2.97/src/vboxguest-5.2.97/vboxvideo/vbva_base.o
/opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-5.2.97/src/vboxguest-5.2.97/vboxvideo/vbox_ttm.c: In Funktion »vbox_ttm_tt_create«:
/opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-5.2.97/src/vboxguest-5.2.97/vboxvideo/vbox_ttm.c:219:22: Fehler: Übergabe des Arguments 2 von »ttm_tt_init« von inkompatiblem Zeigertyp [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
  if (ttm_tt_init(tt, bdev, size, page_flags, dummy_read_page)) {
                      ^~~~
In file included from /home/damian/kernel/linux/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_driver.h:45,
                 from /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-5.2.97/src/vboxguest-5.2.97/vboxvideo/vbox_drv.h:69,
                 from /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-5.2.97/src/vboxguest-5.2.97/vboxvideo/vbox_ttm.c:31:
/home/damian/kernel/linux/include/drm/ttm/ttm_tt.h:161:63: Anmerkung: »struct ttm_buffer_object *« erwartet, aber Argument hat Typ »struct ttm_bo_device *«
 int ttm_tt_init(struct ttm_tt *ttm, struct ttm_buffer_object *bo,
                                     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~
/opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-5.2.97/src/vboxguest-5.2.97/vboxvideo/vbox_ttm.c:219:6: Fehler: zu viele Argumente für Funktion »ttm_tt_init«
  if (ttm_tt_init(tt, bdev, size, page_flags, dummy_read_page)) {
      ^~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from /home/damian/kernel/linux/include/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_driver.h:45,
                 from /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-5.2.97/src/vboxguest-5.2.97/vboxvideo/vbox_drv.h:69,
                 from /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-5.2.97/src/vboxguest-5.2.97/vboxvideo/vbox_ttm.c:31:
/home/damian/kernel/linux/include/drm/ttm/ttm_tt.h:161:5: Anmerkung: hier deklariert
 int ttm_tt_init(struct ttm_tt *ttm, struct ttm_buffer_object *bo,
     ^~~~~~~~~~~

Best regards
Damian