596762 – app-emulation/virtualbox-modules missing vboxvideo

Bug 596762 - app-emulation/virtualbox-modules missing vboxvideo

Summary: app-emulation/virtualbox-modules missing vboxvideo

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2016-10-10 10:57 UTC by Mike Lothian
Modified:	2016-10-10 11:13 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Mike Lothian 2016-10-10 10:57:08 UTC

Can virtualbox-modules have the vboxvideo and its prereq vboxsf kernel module added to the build?

This is enough to get the modesetting DDX driver working on virtualbox guests

Alternatively could xf86-video-virtualbox be updated to 5.1.6

Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-10-10 11:13:40 UTC

app-emulation/virtualbox-modules provides the kernel modules for the virtualbox host system, not the guest.

Unfortunately , until bug #582078 has been fixed there's no possibility to bump xf86-video-virtualbox.