Extension Pack incompatiblity

[Jeff]

[ test case ]
Updating virtualbox and download the latest ext pack from upstream should stop give the useless warning to the user, and also installing virtualbox-ext-pack will stop it

VirtualBox provides an VM VirtualBox Extension Pack for VirtualBox 5.0. This extension provies support for USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 devices, VirtualBox RDP and PXE boot for Intel cards. The current release is 5.0.22. However, the main virtualbox release in Ubuntu 16.04 is 5.0.18. VirtualBox warns of incompatibility due to the version discrepancies between virutalbox and the extension pack.

I am requesting VirtualBox be updated to 5.0.22 in Ubuntu 16.04. Since 5.0.18, all changes to VirtualBox have been bugfixes/maintenance releases. It appears there are security fixes also made in the releases below.

Link: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

VirtualBox 5.0.22 (released 2016-06-16)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

VMM: fixes for certain Intel Atom hosts (bug #14915)
VMM: properly restore the complete FPU state for 32-bit guests on 64-bit hosts on Intel Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge CPUs
VMM: new I/O-APIC implementation fixing several bugs and improving the performance under certain conditions (bug #15295 and others)
VMM: fixed a potential Linux guest panic on AMD hosts
VMM: fixed a potential hang with 32-bit EFI guests on Intel CPUs (VT-x without unrestricted guest execution)
GUI: don't allow to start subsequent separate VM instances
GUI: raised upper limit for video capture screen resolution (bug #15432)
GUI: warn if the VM has less than 128MB VRAM configured and 3D enabled
Main: when monitoring DNS configuration changes on Windows hosts avoid false positives from competing DHCP renewals. This should fix NAT link flaps when host has multiple DHCP configured interfaces, in particular when the host uses OpnVPN.
Main: properly display an error message if the VRDE server cannot be enabled at runtime, for example because another service is using the same port
NAT: Initialize guest address guess for wildcard port-forwarding rules with default guest address (bug #15412)
VGA: fix for a problem which made certain legacy guests crash under certain conditions (bug #14811)
ACPI: properly notify the guest if the ACPI battery state changed
OVF: fixed import problems for some appliances using an AHCI controller created by 3rd party applications
SDK: reduced memory usage in the webservice Java bindings
Windows hosts: fixed performance regresson with SMP guests (5.0 regression)
Windows hosts: fixes for the shared clipboard
Windows hosts: Windows hardening fix
Windows Additions: fixes to retain the guest display layout when resizing or disabling the guest monitors
Linux hosts: EL 6.8 fix (bug #15411)
Linux hosts: Linux 4.7 fix (bug #15459)
Linux Additions: Linux 4.7 fixes (bug #15444)
Linux Additions: fix for certain 32-bit guests (5.0.18 regression; bug #15320)
Linux Additions: fixed mouse pointer offset (5.0.18 regression; bug #15324)
Linux Additions: made old X.Org releases work again with kernels 3.11 and later (5.0.18 regression; bug #15319)
Linux Additions: fixed X.Org crash after hard guest reset (5.0.18 regression; bug #15354)
Linux Additions: don't stop the X11 setup if loading the shared folders module fails (5.0.18 regression)
Linux Additions: don't complain if the Drag and Drop service is not available on the host
Solaris Additions: added support for X.org 1.18
VirtualBox 5.0.20 (released 2016-04-28)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Storage: fixed a regression causing write requests from the BIOS to cause a Guru Meditation with the LsiLogic SCSI controller (5.0.18 regression; bug #15317)
Storage: several emulation fixes in the BusLogic SCSI controller emulation
NAT Network: support TCP in DNS proxy (same problem as in bug #14736 for NAT)
NAT: rework handling of port-forwarding rules (bug #13570)
NAT: rewrite host resolver to handle more query types and make it asynchronous so that a stalled lookup doesn't block all NAT traffic
Snapshots: don't crash when restoring a snapshot which has more network adapters than the current state (ie when the snapshot uses ICH9 and the current state uses PIIX3)
Guest Control: various bugfixes for the copyfrom and copyto commands / API (bug #14336)
VBoxManage: list processor features on list hostinfo (bug #15334)
Linux hosts: fix for Linux 4.5 if CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT is enabled (bug #15327)
Windows hosts: another fix for recent Windows 10 insider builds (bug #15337)
Windows hosts: make it work on Windows XP again (5.0.18 regression)
Windows Additions: fixed performance issues with PowerPoint 2010 and the WDDM graphics drivers if Aero is disabled

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

some comments:
1) 5.0.22 ext pack should work correctly in virtualbox 5.0.18
2) there is a virtualbox-ext-pack that downloads and installs for you the correct version
3) I'm fully aware of the fixes in later virtualbox releases, but I don't think they are worth an SRU, and I could understand if you point me to some bugs that are affecting you and are fixed in a later version.

In any case, I maintain a virtualbox-ppa, with the backports to all the currently supported ubuntu releases.
https://launchpad.net/~costamagnagianfranco/+archive/ubuntu/virtualbox-ppa

Note: I'm the vbox Debian and Ubuntu maintainer, so you can trust that ppa.

[kolokolovorot (vutil)]

I don't know what is SRU, but 'mouse pointer offset' regression in guest-dkms (https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/15324) ruins GUI usability in linux guests and is worth to be fixed before the release of 16.04.1.

Please read the comments on that ticket from the post #5 , as the bug appears not only on save-restore but also shows up after a while during normal usage of guest's gui.

I'm new here, maybe I should create a new bug report on this specific issue? If so, please let me know.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

I like the SRU idea, uploaded on xenial unapproved queue.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Please add a test case to the description so that this can actually be verified.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Jeff, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-ext-pack into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-ext-pack/5.0.24-0ubuntu1.16.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Jeff, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-guest-additions-iso into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-guest-additions-iso/5.0.24-0ubuntu1.16.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Jeff, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/5.0.24-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

just tested, so far so good.

[Jeff (jdferron)]

Martin,

I am testing as well and I am not seeing any issues at the moment. I will be running this for a bit just ensure no negative functionality.

[Jeff (jdferron)]

After using it a bit more, I vote migrating it to stable.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox - 5.0.24-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.1

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virtualbox (5.0.24-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Update to the latest minor release for xenial (LP: #1594493)

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Tue, 05 Jul 2016 10:17:21 +0200

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for virtualbox has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-guest-additions-iso - 5.0.24-0ubuntu1.16.04.1

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virtualbox-guest-additions-iso (5.0.24-0ubuntu1.16.04.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Update to the latest minor release for xenial (LP: #1594493)

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Tue, 05 Jul 2016 10:16:17 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-ext-pack - 5.0.24-0ubuntu1.16.04.1

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virtualbox-ext-pack (5.0.24-0ubuntu1.16.04.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Update to the latest minor release for xenial (LP: #1594493)

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Tue, 05 Jul 2016 10:15:15 +0200