Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 May 2018 22:18:04 +0200 | From | damian <> | Subject | Re: Bug in vboxguest: After commit Merge tag 'char-misc-4.17-rc3' |
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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
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