Bug#468864: virtualbox-ose-source: Support for 2.6.25 kernels
Frans Pop
Version: 1.5.6-dfsg-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
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The virtualbox driver module will fail to load if compiled for 2.6.25
kernels with the following message:
vboxdrv: Unknown symbol change_page_attr
Cause is that this symbol was removed in 2.6.25.
The attached patch adds back that symbol for the vboxdrv module and has
been tested to work.
The patch is based on the series of patches here:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.virtualbox.devel/462
Most of these patches had already been included in the 1.5.6 release, but
for some reason the change_page_attr did not make it. Note that I have
made a minor change to the patch above to make it a bit more conservative.
See also this message from Frank Mehnert on the VB user list:
http://vbox.innotek.de/pipermail/vbox-users/2008-February/002765.html
Please consider applying this patch until that update becomes available.
Cheers,
FJP
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-rc3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages virtualbox-ose-source depends on:
ii bzip2 1.0.4-3 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii debhelper 6.0.5 helper programs for debian/rules
ii dpatch 2.0.29 patch maintenance system for Debia
ii kbuild 1:0.1.2svn1377-5 framework for writing simple makef
ii module-assistant 0.10.11.0 tool to make module package creati
virtualbox-ose-source recommends no packages.
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