Re: [PATCH] [SVN] Please Merge 7 VirtualBox Kernel Modules into theLinux Kernel

From: Josh Boyer
Date: Wed May 08 2013 - 11:41:00 EST


On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:09 AM, quickbooks office
<quickbooks.office@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Please Merge VirtualBox Kernel Modules into the Kernel.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> svn co http://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk vbox
> sh '/home/user/vbox/src/VBox/Additions/linux/export_modules'
> VBoxGuestModules.tar.gz
>
> Extracting VBoxGuestModules.tar.gz will give the Source Code for 3
> modules (used in a Linux Guest):
>
> 1. vboxguest (VirtualBox guest kernel module)
>
> 2. vboxsf (VirtualBox guest kernel module for shared folders)
>
> 3. vboxvideo (VirtualBox guest kernel module for drm support)

That's not how this works. The vbox developers need to submit them as
patches to the appropriate maintainers and they need to go through
proper review. As far as I can tell, that hasn't been done because
they don't want to settle on a single API/ABI between the kernel and
userspace interfaces for vbox.

josh
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