15/05/14 20:35, sajol...@pimienta.org wrote: > I've been working on fixing the build of the VirtualBox guest modules in > Tails 1.1. > > ticket: 5972 > branch: bugfix/fix_virtualbox_dkms_build > > Summary: > - Good news: The build is fixed, way less hackish, and that was easy. > - Bad news: The modules don't work :( > > When I say the modules don't work I mean that `VBoxClient --display`, > and `VBoxClient --clipboard` don't activate the resizable display and > shared clipboard. But the shared folders work. So that seems like a > error with X11, not with the modules themselves.
I've tested this branch, and it actually seems to work as good as it possibly can at the moment: * https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/11037 * https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8336 (Unfortunately these upstream tickets are only referenced in the resolved tickets #5835 and #5456. I hope you didn't waste too much time on this... :S) In other words, everything will work perfectly with the 32-bit kernel, but not necessarily with the 64-bit kernel since that's not supported. Only missing out on the display management (resize host window => change guest's resolution) and clipboard sharing in the latter case isn't so bad, when we get back file sharing and a greater selection of resolutions. Heck, it's probably more secure that way (and host -> guest clipboard sharing is a pretty obvious leak)! :) > Even more weird, I tried to start this working VM with that last ISO > image and the resizing worked! Then I tried to create another fresh VM > from scratch with no disk and started it from that ISO image and the > resizing didn't work. I tried to compare the config file for both VMs > and didn't find anything relevant. Probably the "working VM" was 32-bit, and the "fresh VM" was 64-bit. > Anyway, I'm absolutely not sure I'll be able to fix that before the > freeze. I'd rather concentrate on the documentation upgrades. So if any > VirtualBox user want to have a look... I haven't done a code review yet, but it looks very promising to me so expect this to be merged in time for 1.1. Thanks for working on this! A potential follow-up is how to document the shortcomings. Known issue, perhaps? Cheers! _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.