Hi All, I've just submitted a first RFC version of the vboxguest and vboxsf to the upstream linux kernel:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/8/11/400 https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/8/11/398 https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/8/11/399 I've Cc-ed Knut and Michael, but not vbox-dev because the mainline kernel devs don't like having a closed list on Cc and vbox-dev does not handle large patches well. I'm aware that VirtualBox plans to keep using its own cross-platform of the driver, but I do invite you to take a look at the submitted version, it really is a lot simpler then the cross-platform driver and a lot smaller too, around 80KB for the vboxguest.ko file vs 450KB for the cross-platform version. Given that it is much simpler you may want to use it upstream too for new enough Linux guests and then overtime as you drop support for older guest, fully move over to this driver for Linux guests. Then you can remove support for Linux from the cross-platform driver which should allow to simplify it in various places. Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list vbox-dev@virtualbox.org https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
