Public bug reported:
[Impact]
* virtualbox guest modules have graduated into the upstream vanilla
kernel, since at least v5.4 / Ubuntu 20.04
* These guest modules are no longer needed in dkms or source form, as
they are always available from all kernel flavours, including when the
packages are backported to Ubuntu 20.04.
* Thus we should stop shipping them, and instead rely on the upstream
ones.
[Test Plan]
* Boot virtualbox images
* Check that guest-modules based integration still works.
[Where problems could occur]
* There might be differences between the linux kernel provided modules,
guest userspace & host userspace tooling. If there are any differences,
we would have to resolve the issues as needed to maintain backwards &
forwards compatibility.
[Other Info]
* virtualbox guest modules fail to build from source with recent kernels.
** Affects: virtualbox (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: virtualbox-hwe (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: virtualbox-hwe (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1933248
Title:
please drop virtualbox-guest-dkms virtualbox-guest-source
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