Hello Everyone,
Currently virtualbox 5.1.6 fails to compile for kernel version 4.9 and up.
This is due to a change in get_user_pages api.
The ints for write and force have changed to gup_flags.
Please find the patch attach to fix this for linux 4.9 and up.
Last time I tried to sent it, it wasn't
Hello Everyone,
Currently virtualbox fails to compile for kernel version 4.9 and up.
This is due to a change in get_user_pages api.
The ints for write and force have changed to gup_flags.
Please find the patch attach to fix this for linux 4.9 and up.
Thanks,
Reinoud.
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Hi Hans,
I'm with you on this not being entirely optimal. However 'man ioctl'
(http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ioctl.2.html) documents it as sane
behavior. So why change working code?
As I mentioned, the ideal fix would be to pass the VBox status code back
separately in the request
Hi,
On 06-08-17 16:15, Knut St. Osmundsen wrote:
Hi Hans,
if I understand you correctly you suggest converting VBox status codes
(currently around 2000) to linux errno.h (a few hundreds) in ring-0 and
have ring-3 convert the errno.h back to VBox status codes.
Yes that is what I propose.
Hi Hans,
if I understand you correctly you suggest converting VBox status codes
(currently around 2000) to linux errno.h (a few hundreds) in ring-0 and
have ring-3 convert the errno.h back to VBox status codes. Because the
potential information loss, that's not something I would like to do.
Hi,
On 25-07-17 12:01, Andreas Löffler wrote:
Hello Hans,
please have a look at the manual, section 4.9.1 "Memory ballooning" and
commands like
VBoxManage controlvm "VM name" guestmemoryballoon
VBoxManage modifyvm "VM name" --guestmemoryballoon
There is also a frontend called
