Since I have upgraded the X-server of the guest system to version x11-base/xorg-server-1.7/1.7.1 the X-server of the guest system crashes at startup with the following message in Xorg.0.log: dlopen: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/vboxvideo_drv.so: undefined symbol: resVgaShared. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start virtualbox-ose on a gentoo linux system 2. Start a guest system wthin the virtualbox 3. Start xdm within the guest system Actual Results: the X-server crashes. Expected Results: the X-server is not crashes.
Created attachment 211859 [details] emerge --info from the virtualbox guest system
Created attachment 211861 [details] /var/log/Xorg.0.log of the virtualbox guest system
I've been having this same issue, I can build and rebuild all of X and the vbox guest additions and drivers, but /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vboxvideo_drv.so always has resVgaShared in it (I love that less will parse the elf). Looking around for clues I've found a forum post which mentions the same problem with ati drivers: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-799568-highlight-resvgashared.html (not very useful) A month old worksforme bug on virtualbox's tracker: http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5417 and a 4 month old changeset that should have fixed it: http://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/22149 Looking at the changeset it looks like this should only possibly happen if this macro: GET_ABI_MAJOR(ABI_VIDEODRV_VERSION) is less than 6. This macro is defined in /usr/include/xorg/xf86Module.h, which is owned by xorg-server. With xorg-server-1.6.5 (my current setup since 1.7 failed) this returns 5. This returns 6 with >=xorg-server-1.7 meaning vboxvideo should work, but there still seems to be a problem somewhere in there. I'm still looking into it but it's difficult because this is on my work machine so I can't afford to have X broken for an extended period of time. I'm very suspicious of the headers stored inside the VirtualBox-OSE tarball, which extract to /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox-3.1.0/work/VirtualBox-3.1.0_OSE/src/VBox/Additions/x11/x11include/, they've got headers from every version of X from 1.3 to 7.1, and it would be very easy for them to pick the wrong ones, but I haven't been able to figure out how their build system works well enough to see what include paths they're using. I've attached a very small test program to print out the value of GET_ABI_MAJOR(ABI_VIDEODRV_VERSION), compile with: gcc xtest.c -I/usr/include/xorg -L/usr/lib/xorg/ -o xtest and run with: ./xtest
Created attachment 212503 [details] test program to get X ABI version
Has anyone made any progress on getting 1.7.X xorg to work with the virtualbox drivers? xorg is horribly broken between 1.6.X and 1.7.X and its not easy to go back to 1.6.X.
VirtualBox 3.1.x contains support for X server 1.7, but ebuild does not copy correct driver for X server 1.7. I am using VirtualBox 3.1.x (currently 3.1.6) built from modified ebuild on X server 1.7.4 and everything works fine.
Created attachment 225595 [details, diff] Patch for xf86-video-virtualbox-3.1.6.ebuild to support X server 1.7.x
Ebuild for input (xf86-input-virtualbox) must be also modified by the same manner.
please, add the patch to portage.
x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox in version 3.0.12 is also BROKEN! but the ebuild patch #225595 works. so please, apply the patch ASAP!
I confirm that the solution presented in comments 7 and 8 solve this problem.
Created attachment 228945 [details, diff] Patch for mouse driver I attached a similar patch for the virtualbox mouse driver. Tested with VirtualBox 3.1.6 (closed-source edition) but should work with other versions as well (please verify). I know technically this might not belong in the same bug report and the symptom doesn't match either (running the wrong mouse driver won't prevent X from starting, it just makes it necessary to click on the window to activate the mouse pointer) but it solves the same version-check problem in a different ebuild. Enjoy!
(In reply to comment #12) Thanks Jac confirm works with x11-drivers/xf86-input-virtualbox-3.1.6
Both fixed, thank you guys for the patience and for reporting. + 30 Apr 2010; Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@gentoo.org> + xf86-video-virtualbox-3.1.0.ebuild, xf86-video-virtualbox-3.1.2.ebuild, + xf86-video-virtualbox-3.1.4-r1.ebuild, xf86-video-virtualbox-3.1.6.ebuild: + make 3.1.x ebuilds properly working with xorg-server-1.7, close bug + #295553 + + 30 Apr 2010; Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@gentoo.org> + xf86-input-virtualbox-3.1.0.ebuild, xf86-input-virtualbox-3.1.2.ebuild, + xf86-input-virtualbox-3.1.4-r1.ebuild, xf86-input-virtualbox-3.1.6.ebuild: + make 3.1.x ebuilds properly working with xorg-server-1.7, close bug + #295553 +
