[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#696011: fix is missing

[Felix Geyer]

On 12.08.2013 18:45, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> On 12/08/13 18:40, Felix Geyer wrote:
>> On 12.08.2013 17:55, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>>> This bug was supposedly serious and marked RC and then marked done
>>>
>>> The fixed version was apparently uploaded but is not available in stable
>> The bug affected experimental and later unstable and is fixed in both.
>> wheezy was never affected by this because the wheezy kernel is based on
>> v3.2.
> 
> The comments suggest that it also impacts guests, although it doesn't
> appear that patching the host's kernel module has any impact on the
> guest in this case.

Both the host and guest kernel modules from wheezy are not compatible with
kernel 3.7.
Why are you concerned about the guest modules? Do you need to run wheezy
with a sid kernel as a guest as well?

>>> Can somebody please comment on this?  How can somebody running wheezy
>>> use this fix?  Or should the bug be re-opened?
>> Apparently you already reopened the bug for whatever reason.
>> It shouldn't be surprising that external kernel modules don't work with
>> the latest kernel version since the API is constantly changing.
>>
>> The latest version of virtualbox is in wheezy-backports which is compatible
>> with the kernel from wheezy-backports.
> 
> An unrelated kernel issue on Thinkpads prevents me running the wheezy
> kernel (I put up with it crashing every day for 2 weeks and then had to
> take a kernel from sid).
> 
> It was relatively easy for me to copy the patch into /usr/src on my
> wheezy box and the dkms builds the module successfully - I suspect I
> will not be the only person to come across this type of scenario during
> the life of wheezy

That's why the latest virtualbox version is in wheezy-backports.
I don't think adding patches for unsupported kernels are suitable for
stable updates.

Felix