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

[Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>]

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