[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#756819: no support for xorg-xserver 1.16

[Felix Geyer]

Control: reassign -1 virtualbox-guest-additions-iso 4.3.14-1

Hi,

On 02.08.2014 09:34, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> On 08/02/2014 07:28 AM, Caitlin Matos wrote:
>> I apologize, I'm not sure exactly which package this should be filed
>> against, but I'm pretty sure this is the correct one.
>>
>> I am on a Windows 8.1 host running Debian jessie. I updated xorg-xserver
>> etc. to the current version in testing, 1.16.0-1. However, I am no
>> longer able to use the X11-related guest utilities.
>>
>> The relevant output from VBoxLinuxAdditions.run in the guest additions
>> ISO:
>>
>>  Installing the Window System drivers
>>  Warning: unknown version of the X Window System installed.  Not
>> installing X Window System drivers.
>>
>> Looking at the code, the issue is obvious. It is searching for
>> /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-4.3.14/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions/vboxvideo_drv_116.so, which does not exist.

You are using the non-free guest additions. We have no way of changing them beyond what upstream
provides.

Please uninstall them and instead install the virtualbox-guest-x11 Debian package.
It is built from source against the current Xorg server.

Cheers,
Felix