Hello Christopher thanks for the huge work!
>Sorry for the delay in addressing this. No need to be sorry at all, we are all under high work load, and I appreciate you all taking the steps to finally solve this long standing issue. Let's try to finish it! :) >This does seem like Virtualbox fits well enough in the HWE category (and >probably has sufficient upstream testing) for special SRU treatment. > >I've taken the liberty of reworking the wiki page >https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VirtualboxUpdates to make it easy to review and >accept Virtualbox SRU bugs. I've done this to the best of my >understanding, but you're the domain expert, so please check my work :) If you didn't understand something, it means I wasn't clear enough, so thanks for adding another pair of eyes >Particularly: it's my understanding that this does *not* require any >special coordination with the kernel - the Ubuntu kernel contains >Virtualbox guest driver modules, but these are upstream kernel modules, >and the Ubuntu kernel build does not build virtualbox-dkms modules at >kernel-build time¹ Yes and no. Virtualbox ships both host and guest dkms modules. People might want to install guest-dkms even if they are provided by the kernel (they shuld have an higher priority) Reasons might be multiple, bugs in upstream dkms module, or better behaviour. I don't recall having issues with upstream guest dkms modules, but I didn't want to drop it because of older kernels being still around, and for safety reasons. For *host* kernel module this is sadly a little bit trickier. Newer kernel might break vboxdrv.ko buildability, so for each new kernel, the dkms autopkgtests should be looked at carefully for regressions (in both host and guest). >I've also marked a couple of places (with *******s) where the test case >instructions were not clear to me. The intent with test case >documentation is that it should be detailed enough that anyone reading >the bug could perform the steps and we could be confident that they have >exercised the expected tests. I fully agree and sorry for not being clear enough, I do this testing in an automatic way on my head, so I'm pretty sure I missed lots of things. >Specifically, the questions I had were: > >* instructions for installing/removing the guest additions from the iso >pack (or pointers to documentation for that) > >* What the “various other tests” are - you mention changing >configuration and vboxmanage? > >* Do we need to verify that installing virtualbox guest packages >*outside* a VM does not interfere with the system? There seems to have >been at least one bug raised about that in the past. I don't recall such issues, but in any case didn't have such reports in the last like 5-10 years... I'll add it in case, just to be extra safe. >Sorry again for the delay, Sorry again from my side for not putting the page in a clear enough way, it would have made things easier for all of us :) Feel free to have another look, the page will be updated in some minutes. Gianfranco -- Ubuntu-release mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release
