francis.gar...@umontpellier.fr Hi Emmanuel,
On 28/04/20 at 11:40 +0200, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: > Hi Lucas > > While working on building the vagrant boxes with FAI, I noticed that > some virtualbox drivers where loaded altough I didn't compile them with > DKMS. > > It turns out that the vbox video driver is already included in > the kernel tree and in the buster kernel, and that the vbox shared > folder driver is coming too: > > ``` > dpkg -L linux-image-4.19.0-8-amd64 | grep 'vbox.*ko' > /lib/modules/4.19.0-8-amd64/kernel/drivers/staging/vboxvideo/vboxvideo.ko > /lib/modules/4.19.0-8-amd64/kernel/drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest.ko > ``` > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5586c3c1e0eb04cb8b16684aef779e019c8cc64e > > This means that we have a chance to drop the contrib boxes for bullseyes > and our users will have a much nicer experience ouf of the box using the > official boxes :) > > The initial drive for this came from Fedora people, who wanted a better > out of the box experience within VirtualBox for people using their live CD. .... And it has been enabled in 5.7: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=961516 Once it migrates to testing, we can drop contrib-testing64! Wow! Lucas