Unable to install VirtualBox Guest Service in 15.04

[Martin Wimpress]

It is not longer possible to select VirtualBox Guest Service in 15.04. The only options available are:

  * Continue using a manually install driver
  * Do not use the device

The option 'Using x86 virtualisation solution - guest addition module' is no longer selectable. See the attached screen shot. This is from a fresh install of Ubuntu MATE 15.04 daily (20th March) and no drivers have been manually installed.

In light of the Virtualbox issue where new installs on Virtualbox have a resolution of 640x480 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/1368784/) this is going to be a frustration for many users.

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1434579

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Do you have the multiverse repository enabled? That is where the virtualbox-guest-x11 package is located.

[Martin Wimpress (flexiondotorg)]

Yes, the multiverse enabled.

I've just installed the Ubuntu MATE daily in a clean VM and confirm that multiverse is enabled by default.

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

This isn't a bug in software-properties. What I can't decide is if it's a bug in virtualbox-guest* or ubuntu-drivers-common. Basically, here's what's happening:

1) The virtualbox-guest* packages have a modalias for the "guest services", but not the VGA controller.
2) We pulled the DKMS drivers into the kernel.
3) The above situation confuses ubuntu-drivers-common, which really wants to install vbox-dkms, but we have it builtin.
4) Nothing wants to install vbox-x11, which we actually want.

So, the lack of modaliases on vbox-x11 is definitely a vbox bug, and the dependencies are also a bit strong between vbox packages (we should drop some recommends to suggests, to stop trying to forcefully install compilers to get an X driver).

That said, we might also want to quirk the ubuntu-drivers-common detection a bit to either hide vbox-dkms altogether, or actually let us use it if it's a potential upgrade. Currently, neither of these options is in play, and we see it, but it's greyed out, which is amazingly confusing.

[LocutusOfBorg (costamagnagianfranco)]

Hi Adam, I'm the virtualbox maintainer, thanks for the useful report, can you please share a patch too?

I'll be happy to review and apply it also in debian if needed (I would like to avoid maintaining two different packages if possible)

thanks

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

We're also going to add a "Provides: virtualbox-guest-modules" to both linux-image and virtualbox-guest-dkms, so that x11/utils can depend on that, and only force dkms installation if the driver isn't builtin.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.19.0-12.12

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linux (3.19.0-12.12) vivid; urgency=low

  [ Andy Whitcroft ]

  * [Packaging] do_common_tools should always be on
  * [Packaging] Provides: virtualbox-guest-modules when appropriate
    - LP: #1434579

  [ Chris J Arges ]

  * Revert "SAUCE: ext4: disable ext4_punch_hole for indirect filesystems"
    - LP: #1292234

  [ Leann Ogasawara ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1439803

  [ Timo Aaltonen ]

  * SAUCE: i915_bpo: Provide a backport driver for Skylake & Cherryview
    graphics
    - LP: #1420774
  * SAUCE: i915_bpo: Update intel_ips.h file location
    - LP: #1420774
  * SAUCE: i915_bpo: Only support Skylake and Cherryview with the backport
    driver
    - LP: #1420774
  * SAUCE: i915_bpo: Rename the backport driver to i915_bpo
    - LP: #1420774
  * i915_bpo: [Config] Enable CONFIG_DRM_I915_BPO=m
    - LP: #1420774
  * SAUCE: i915_bpo: Add i915_bpo_*() calls for ubuntu/i915
    - LP: #1420774
  * SAUCE: i915_bpo: Revert "drm/i915: remove unused
    power_well/get_cdclk_freq api"
    - LP: #1420774
  * SAUCE: i915_bpo: Add i915_bpo specific power well calls
    - LP: #1420774
  * SAUCE: Backport I915_PARAM_MMAP_VERSION and I915_MMAP_WC
    - LP: #1420774
  * SAUCE: Partial backport of drm/i915: Add ioctl to set per-context
    parameters
    - LP: #1420774
  * SAUCE: drm/i915: Specify bsd rings through exec flag
    - LP: #1420774
  * SAUCE: drm/i915: add I915_PARAM_HAS_BSD2 to i915_getparam
    - LP: #1420774
  * SAUCE: drm/i915: add component support
    - LP: #1420774
  * SAUCE: drm/i915: Add tiled framebuffer modifiers
    - LP: #1420774
  * SAUCE: Backport new displayable tiling formats
    - LP: #1420774
  * SAUCE: Backport drm_crtc_vblank_reset() helper
    - LP: #1420774
  * SAUCE: drm/i915: Add I915_PARAM_REVISION
    - LP: #1420774
  * SAUCE: drm/i915: Export total subslice and EU counts
    - LP: #1420774
  * SAUCE: i915_bpo: Revert drm/mm: Support 4 GiB and larger ranges
    - LP: #1420774

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * drm/i915/skl: Split the SKL PCI ids by GT
    - LP: #1420774
  * drm: Reorganize probed mode validation
    - LP: #1420774
  * drm: Perform basic sanity checks on probed modes
    - LP: #1420774
  * drm: Do basic sanity checks for user modes
    - LP: #1420774
  * drm/atomic-helper: Export both plane and modeset check helpers
    - LP: #1420774
  * drm/atomic-helper: Again check modeset *before* plane states
    - LP: #1420774
  * drm/atomic: Introduce state->obj backpointers
    - LP: #1420774
  * drm: allow property validation for refcnted props
    - LP: #1420774
  * drm: store property instead of id in obj attachment
    - LP: #1420774
  * drm: get rid of direct property value access
    - LP: #1420774
  * drm: add atomic_set_property wrappers
    - LP: #1420774
  * drm: tweak getconnector locking
    - LP: #1420774
  * drm: add atomic_get_property
    - LP: #1420774
  * drm: Remove unneeded braces for single statement blocks
    - LP: #1420774
  * drm: refactor getproperties/getconnector
    - LP: #1420774
  * drm: add atomic properties
    - LP: #1420774
  * drm/atomic: atomic_check functions
    - LP: #1420774
  * drm: s...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox - 4.3.26-dfsg-2ubuntu1

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virtualbox (4.3.26-dfsg-2ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=medium

  * Re-work the packaging to account for the kernel modules being shipped in
    the master kernel packages, removing the need for dkms (LP: #1434579):
    - Make the dkms package provide a virtual package matching what the
      kernel packages provide to indicate that they ship the dkms modules.
    - Add an alternate dep from the utils package to the virtual driver.
    - Make the x11 driver package associate with the VGA controller PCI ID.
 -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden> Wed, 22 Apr 2015 10:01:25 +0100

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-wily' to 'verification-done-wily'.

If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!