Opensuse Factory, VirtualBox and Xorg 1.16 (solved)

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Hi All,

The Current factory doesn’t work doesn’t play nicely with Virtualbox 4.3.14 in that Xorg X11 1.16 isn’t yet supported by guest additions so you are stuck with a fixed screen. However there is a fix here:

https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13207

Hope this helps someone.

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Thanks for this tip. I’ll try it out later.

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Thx for the tip! :slight_smile:

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Hm. Strange enough the openSUSE packages already contain the (upstream) patch to build the vboxvideo driver for Xorg 1.16.

But still, the driver fails to start because it requires ABI version 17, whereas Factory’s Xorg has ABI version 18.

I’ll have to investigate. I think the problem is that the spec file only installs the driver for 1.16 “%if %suse_version >= 1320”, but Factory’s %suse_version probably is not >=1320, so the default 1.15 driver gets installed.

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A working virtualbox-guest-x11 package for Factory is now available here:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/wolfi323:/branches:/Virtualization/openSUSE_Factory/

If the link is dead, then the fix is in the Virtualization repo already, and on its way to Factory… http://forums.opensuse.org/images/smiliesnew/wink.png

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Nice work Wolfi and fast too :good:

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The updated virtualbox-guest-x11 package is now in Factory.

So there should be no need any more to manually download and install newer guest additions.
Factory’s vboxvideo driver should work out of the box again with Factory’s Xorg.

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I confirm, working on openSUSE-Factory-DVD-x86_64-Snapshot20140805-Media.iso after a zypper dup in above on a 13.1 server and VitualBox 4.3.14 R95030.

regards

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[QUOTE=jonte1;2659200]I confirm, working on openSUSE-Factory-DVD-x86_64-Snapshot20140805-Media.iso
Well, that snapshot doesn’t contain the working vboxvideo driver yet.
It should be in the current one (20140813) though, and all subsequent ones of course.

So it should work out of the box in all snapshots starting with 20140813, even the LiveISOs.

See also the changelog:
http://download.opensuse.org/factory/iso/Changes.20140813.txt
(search for “virtualbox” :wink: )

after a zypper dup in above on a 13.1 server and VitualBox 4.3.14 R95030.

That “zypper dup” installed the fixed version from the repo.