I worked on a branch to fix the build of the VirtualBox modules, that has been broken for a while.
Ticket: https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5972 Branch: bugfix/fix_virtualbox_dkms_build This branch installs virtualbox-guest-dkms version 4.2.16 from unstable because previous versions do not build on kernel 3.8. After the modules are installed, it downgrades virtualbox-guest-utils and virtualbox-guest-x11 to the version in deb.tails.boum.org, because virtualbox-guest-x11/unstable depends on the version of Xorg in unstable of course. This works, but it does not solve all the problem magically: - the display still does not resize but is quite bigger by default - the shared folders work but the vboxsf module needs to be modprobed - the shared clipboard works after issuing `sudo VBoxClient --clipboard` (that last one is not a problem!) I'm not certain these problems are caused by the mismatch in versions. Maybe those are separate issues that need to be fixed some other way. If we still consider this first step as positive I don't mind creating other tickets for those. And this branch would be a candidate for 0.20.1. If we think it is too hackish, we might try to apply the patch the hopefully fixes the build directly on older versions: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=704130 https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/39224/ I need some guidance on what we think the best strategy would be here. _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
