I believe x11-drivers/xf86-video-vboxvideo is not useful with the kernel modesetting driver (CONFIG_DRM_VBOXVIDEO). xf86-video-vboxvideo is only intended to be used these days on operating systems without kernel modesetting (e.g. Solaris). I would like to remove the package. Please drop the dependency from app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions if possible.
As far as I know, there are 2 video drivers that can be used with Guest Additions: - kernel module vboxvideo + xorg module x11-drivers/xf86-video-vboxvideo for the VBoxSVGA graphics controller, or - kernel module vmwgfx + xorg module x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware for the VMSVGA graphics controller - this is the recommended one. I think VBoxSVGA + vboxvideo are becoming obsolete, but it still depends on how the virtual machine is configured. So the best solution would be to keep using the `gui` USE flag for building the `VBoxClient` binaries, and add a new `vboxvideo` flag that will build the `vboxvideo` module and depend on x11-drivers/xf86-video-vboxvideo. Maybe also and add optfeature for x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware. What do you think?
(In reply to Viorel Munteanu from comment #1) > As far as I know, there are 2 video drivers that can be used with Guest > Additions: > > - kernel module vboxvideo + xorg module x11-drivers/xf86-video-vboxvideo for > the VBoxSVGA graphics controller, or This is the configuration I'm saying is replaced with CONFIG_DRM_VBOXVIDEO. With CONFIG_DRM_VBOXVIDEO, x11-drivers/xf86-video-vboxvideo is not needed. > - kernel module vmwgfx + xorg module x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware for the > VMSVGA graphics controller - this is the recommended one. > > I think VBoxSVGA + vboxvideo are becoming obsolete, but it still depends on > how the virtual machine is configured. > > So the best solution would be to keep using the `gui` USE flag for building > the `VBoxClient` binaries, and add a new `vboxvideo` flag that will build > the `vboxvideo` module and depend on x11-drivers/xf86-video-vboxvideo. I don't know whata VBoxClient is, but I don't think x11-drivers/xf86-video-vboxvideo is a dependency since it's just an Xorg driver. > Maybe also and add optfeature for x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware. Seems like a good idea.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=0eacf0664dad7d850038c2afc9ded15fe881f5b9 commit 0eacf0664dad7d850038c2afc9ded15fe881f5b9 Author: Viorel Munteanu <ceamac@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2024-04-10 16:35:33 +0000 Commit: Viorel Munteanu <ceamac@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2024-04-10 18:17:52 +0000 app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions: remove a dependency Remove dependency on x11-drivers/xf86-video-vboxvideo. Move the long elog sequence to readme.gentoo-r1. Add more warnings and kernel checks. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/929007 Signed-off-by: Viorel Munteanu <ceamac@gentoo.org> .../virtualbox-guest-additions-7.0.14-r3.ebuild | 297 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 297 insertions(+)
You are right, I checked. I removed the dependency, it was loaded but did nothing. The modesetting driver would take over. Also the modesetting driver can work just as fine instead of the vmware one, so I did not add the optfeature after all. Thanks!
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=7cc667cddaf0355400bb7c35680f30e24f403e7b commit 7cc667cddaf0355400bb7c35680f30e24f403e7b Author: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2024-11-06 18:38:42 +0000 Commit: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2024-11-06 18:42:17 +0000 profiles: Mask xf86-video-vboxvideo for removal Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/929007 Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> profiles/arch/amd64/use.mask | 1 - profiles/arch/x86/use.mask | 1 - profiles/package.mask | 7 +++++++ 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
