[vbox-dev] Interesting patch for vbox upstream

Hi, You may want to do something similar to this for vbox upstream: https://github.com/jwrdegoede/vboxguest/commit/8a79961c661e3fba88c0e50447b2344e0c811d1a Note in my tree this applies on top of: https://github.com/jwrdegoede/vboxguest/commit/8c232c972f7b2dfbfc863a1aaeb0b44fdfcf82d0 Which I

[vbox-dev] [PATCH 2/2] vgdrvLinuxIOCtl: Always return standard Linux errno values

Returning VERR_* style vbox-runtime codes as positive values is an ugly hack and unlike any other ioctl call on Linux, breaking standard expectations of ioctls. All Guest Additions user-space code calls the ioctl through the vbglR3DoIOCtl wrapper, which calls on RTErrConvertFromErrno on negative

[vbox-dev] [PATCH 1/2] RTErrConvertTo/FromErrno: Add translation for some extra codes

Some VERR_ codes require special error handling in userspace, make sure that these survive being converted to an errno and back again. Specifically this commit adds support for the following VERR_ codes: VERR_NOT_FOUND VERR_HGCM_SERVICE_NOT_FOUND VERR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW VERR_OUT_OF_RANGE To

Re: [vbox-dev] New kernel error message when running 4.13 as guest

Hi Hans, It's a really good question why that message is printed at all. As Frank pointed out, the apic_check_deadline_errata() function only goes by the CPU model and does not check whether the feature is available. It is generally bad form to assume specific CPU features based solely