[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#497505: virtualbox-ose doesn't work with linux 2.6.26

[Frans Pop]

# No longer assign to linux-2.6 as the issue has been confirmed for VBox
reassign 497505 virtualbox-ose 1.6.2-dfsg-4
tags 497505 patch fixed-upstream
thanks

On Friday 12 September 2008, Frans Pop wrote:
> I've taken a look at the upstream SVN repository and it looks like the
> fix is in changeset 12305 [1].
> There are differences between the code there and the source in Debian.
> That changeset seems to e.g. depend on changeset 12299 [2].
>
> I have not looked much deeper, but at first glance it looks like it
> should be possible to backport the fix for someone skilled enough in
> C++ (which I'm not).

Well, turns out I was wrong. The two patchsets applied cleanly so I was 
able to do that myself. It did not work though. After looking again it 
turned out that changesets 12303, 12307 and 12308 were related.

After applying those changesets as well, the problem seems to be fixed.
A virtual machine that was failing for me (a clean Debian Lenny install) 
now boots reliably with 2.6.26-1-686 (on an amd64 host running unstable 
with 2.6.27-rc6 kernel).

Note that the installer itself has never been affected as D-I uses the 486 
kernel flavor. The problem only showed for me when trying to boot into an 
installed system with the 686 kernel flavor.

Please consider applying the attached patch and pushing the new version 
for Lenny. The patch contains the cumulative diff for the mentioned 
changesets.

Cheers,
FJP

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