please drop virtualbox-guest-dkms virtualbox-guest-source
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Focal |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
virtualbox (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Focal |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
virtualbox-hwe (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Focal |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
[Impact]
* virtualbox guest modules have graduated into the upstream vanilla kernel, since at least v5.4 / Ubuntu 20.04
* These guest modules are no longer needed in dkms or source form, as they are always available from all kernel flavours, including when the packages are backported to Ubuntu 20.04.
* Thus we should stop shipping them, and instead rely on the upstream ones.
[Test Plan]
* Boot virtualbox images
* Check that guest-modules based integration still works.
[Where problems could occur]
* There might be differences between the linux kernel provided modules, guest userspace & host userspace tooling. If there are any differences, we would have to resolve the issues as needed to maintain backwards & forwards compatibility.
[Other Info]
* virtualbox guest modules fail to build from source with recent kernels.
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Focal): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
Ack thanks!