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    Phoronix: Fedora 28 To Work On Better VirtualBox Integration, Hardening Packages & Stronger Crypto

    With more developers returning to their activities after the holidays, feature work on Fedora 28 is heating up...

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    When will VirtualBox host kernel driver be mainlined? I don't use virtualBox because of this, it taints kernel. And does not play well with KVM, can't work at same time. Those two are deal breaker for me

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    • #3
      Originally posted by gnufreex View Post
      When will VirtualBox host kernel driver be mainlined? I don't use virtualBox because of this, it taints kernel. And does not play well with KVM, can't work at same time. Those two are deal breaker for me
      The VirtualBox developers do not want to stabilize the interface that is used between the host kernel modules and the VirtualBox application. Consequently, it can't go into the kernel because there's not a stable interface between kernel and user space.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by King InuYasha View Post

        The VirtualBox developers do not want to stabilize the interface that is used between the host kernel modules and the VirtualBox application. Consequently, it can't go into the kernel because there's not a stable interface between kernel and user space.
        Red Hat said that VirtualBox devs have agreed to stabilize the interfaces required for (iirc) the vboxvideo kernel driver to be upstreamed.

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        • #5
          Since the normal guy is sick, typo:
          VirtualBox Guest Integration - This is aobut having the VirtualBox guest drivers and tools ship

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          • #6
            Originally posted by FishPls View Post
            Red Hat said that VirtualBox devs have agreed to stabilize the interfaces required for (iirc) the vboxvideo kernel driver to be upstreamed.
            And put one of their men on preparing said driver for upstreaming https://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n...boxvideo-Plans

            This is the current repo where that driver is https://github.com/jwrdegoede/vboxvideo

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            • #7
              Originally posted by gnufreex View Post
              When will VirtualBox host kernel driver be mainlined? I don't use virtualBox because of this, it taints kernel. And does not play well with KVM, can't work at same time. Those two are deal breaker for me
              why kernel taint is a deal breaker?

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              • #8
                Originally posted by starshipeleven View Post
                why kernel taint is a deal breaker?
                Bug reports

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by starshipeleven View Post
                  And put one of their men on preparing said driver for upstreaming https://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n...boxvideo-Plans

                  This is the current repo where that driver is https://github.com/jwrdegoede/vboxvideo
                  Actually the vboxdriver has been in the mainline kernel under drivers/staging/vboxvideo for a while now. That github repo is somewhat oldish and should no longer be used.

                  The vboxguest driver has been queued up for merging into the kernel during the 4.16 cycle. This means that of the vbox guest drivers only the vboxsf driver is not (yet) part of the mainline kernel.

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