Get VirtualBox 3.0.8 (maintenance/bugfix release) into Karmic

[Daniel Hahler]

Binary package hint: virtualbox-ose

This is a bugfix release, which fixes a lot of bugs/regressions and should therefore get into Karmic.

From the upstream changelog (http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog):
    * VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6 (VT-x only; bug #4947)
    * VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x & AMD-V only; bug #5058)
    * VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059)
    * VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests
    * VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression; software virtualization only)
    * VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042)
    * Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands with root privileges
    * Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)
    * Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)
    * Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)
    * Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM selector (bug #5063)
    * Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not available
    * Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as interrupts were not re-enabled everytime
    * Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only networking (bug #4775)
    * Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when changing them (bug #5077)
    * X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards (bug #4907)
    * Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)
    * Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)
    * Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)
    * Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier
    * Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)
    * Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)
    * Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders are installed
    * Linux Additions: implemented ftrunctate (bug #4771)
    * VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use
    * Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under rare conditions (bug #4870)
    * VBoxManage: implemented controlvm vrdpport command
    * iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (#5072)
    * SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB
    * USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices (bug #5089)
    * NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Felix, can you handle this?
I'd be happy to sponsor it.

[Felix Geyer (debfx)]

I'm working on it.

[Felix Geyer (debfx)]

Sorry it took a bit longer.
This time there are more changes than usual on the Debian side.

virtualbox-ose (3.0.8-dfsg-1ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian unstable (LP: #444812), remaining changes:
    - Enable DKMS support on virtualbox host and guest modules (LP: #267097)
      - Drop virtualbox-ose{-guest,}-modules-* package templates
      - Recommend *-source instead of *-modules packages
      - Replace error messages related to missing/mismatched
        kernel module accordingly
    - Autoload kernel module
      - LOAD_VBOXDRV_MODULE=1 in virtualbox-ose.default
    - Disable update action
      - patches/u01-disable-update-action.dpatch
    - Virtualbox should go in Accessories, not in System tools (LP: #288590)
      - virtualbox-ose-qt.files/virtualbox-ose.desktop
    - Add apport hook
      - virtualbox-ose.files/source_virtualbox-ose.py
      - virtualbox-ose.install
    - Add launchpad integration
      - control
      - lpi-bug.xpm
      - patches/u02-lp-integration.dpatch
  * Try to remove existing dkms modules before adding the new modules
    (LP: #434503)
    - debian/virtualbox-ose-source.postinst
    - debian/virtualbox-ose-guest-source.postinst
  * Don't fail if dkms modules have already been removed
    - debian/virtualbox-ose-source.prerm
    - debian/virtualbox-ose-guest-source.prerm

[Felix Geyer (debfx)]

3.0.6-dfsg-1ubuntu1 -> 3.0.8-dfsg-1ubuntu1 debian/ only diff

[Felix Geyer (debfx)]

virtualbox-guest-additions sync request: bug #450803

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-ose - 3.0.8-dfsg-1ubuntu1

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virtualbox-ose (3.0.8-dfsg-1ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian unstable (LP: #444812), remaining changes:
    - Enable DKMS support on virtualbox host and guest modules (LP: #267097)
      - Drop virtualbox-ose{-guest,}-modules-* package templates
      - Recommend *-source instead of *-modules packages
      - Replace error messages related to missing/mismatched
        kernel module accordingly
    - Autoload kernel module
      - LOAD_VBOXDRV_MODULE=1 in virtualbox-ose.default
    - Disable update action
      - patches/u01-disable-update-action.dpatch
    - Virtualbox should go in Accessories, not in System tools (LP: #288590)
      - virtualbox-ose-qt.files/virtualbox-ose.desktop
    - Add apport hook
      - virtualbox-ose.files/source_virtualbox-ose.py
      - virtualbox-ose.install
    - Add launchpad integration
      - control
      - lpi-bug.xpm
      - patches/u02-lp-integration.dpatch
  * Try to remove existing dkms modules before adding the new modules
    (LP: #434503)
    - debian/virtualbox-ose-source.postinst
    - debian/virtualbox-ose-guest-source.postinst
  * Don't fail if dkms modules have already been removed
    - debian/virtualbox-ose-source.prerm
    - debian/virtualbox-ose-guest-source.prerm

virtualbox-ose (3.0.8-dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=high

  [ Felix Geyer ]
  * New Upstream Version
    - Fixes security vulnerability in VBoxNetAdpCtl (SunSolve #268188)
  * Conflict with upstream proprietary packages
  * Install vboxapi python module, closes: #549542
  * Use an own cleaned-up virtualbox-ose init script instead of
    patching the upstream script
  * Only restart virtualbox-ose after upgrade if it's not running; do not
    restart virtualbox-ose-guest-utils at all
  * Call notify-reboot-required after guest utils upgrade
  * Remove vboxusers group as it's not needed anymore
  * Don't statically link VBoxClient with libstdc++
    - Add patch 22-no-static-libstdcpp.dpatch from Fedora
  * Pass more build options through the command line, which allows us to drop
    02-config-kmk.dpatch, 03-localconf-kmk.dpatch and
    14-disable-registration-request.dpatch
  * No longer reload udev rules in postinst as they are reloaded automatically
  * Add lintian overrides for non-PIC code in /usr/lib/virtualbox/*.so

  [ Michael Meskes ]
  * Made debug package also depend on guest utilities package.
  * Added option to close down all active VMs from init script.

 -- Felix Geyer <email address hidden> Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:06:00 +0200