** Description changed: [SRU Template] * the virtualbox kernel module needs some tweaks for the new hwe kernel up to 4.11. same as lp: #1674819 + + changelog: + + VirtualBox 5.0.36 (released 2017-03-15) + + This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or + added: + + Shared Folders: fixed case insensitive filename access (5.0.34 regression; Windows guests only; bug #16549) + Shared Folders: fixed access to long pathes (5.0.34 regression; Windows guests only; bug #14651) + VBoxBugReport: fixed VM log collection issue + Linux hosts: fixed autostart service script (bug #14955) + + VirtualBox 5.0.34 (released 2017-03-08) + + This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or + added: + + VMM: don't access the MSR_IA32_SMM_MONITOR_CTL MSR if dual-monitor treatment is not available (KVM workaround, bug #14965) + NAT network: fixed two potential crashes in the DHCP server + Storage: LsiLogic fix for Windows 10 + USB: fixed not being able to attach certain USB devices having invalid characters in the device strings (5.0.18 regression; bug #15956) + Host-only Network: fixed host-only adapter creation issue preventing VirtualBox installation on Windows hosts (bug #16379) + Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.11 compile fixes (bug #16506) + Linux Additions: fix for the shared folders kernel module to compile on Linux 4.10 + Linux Additions: fix the graphics driver build with Linux 4.10 and later (bug #16298) + + excluding the kernel fixes, other stuff fixes: + - a regression on some shared folders path/special chars + - the bug report script + - the autostart service script (guest-additions-iso fix) + - some crashes + some USB attach fixes for invalid chars-devices + + I'm confident that this update is safe, debdiff is really minimal + compared to the last two previous updates to stable [Regression potential] This is an upstream release which includes changes beyond compatibility with the new kernel. This is reported to be a bugfix-only release. More documentation should be provided of this. [Test case] Verify that virtualbox from proposed works on both the linux kernel and the linux-hwe kernel. I installed the latest updates (including kernel) in xenial-proposed and got this crash report. ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: virtualbox-dkms 5.0.32-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-34.36~16.04.1-generic 4.8.11 Uname: Linux 4.8.0-34-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5 Architecture: amd64 DKMSKernelVersion: 4.10.0-13-generic Date: Tue Mar 21 21:48:20 2017 DuplicateSignature: dkms:virtualbox-dkms:5.0.32-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2:/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/5.0.32/build/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:1066:18: error: too few arguments to function ‘get_user_pages_remote’ InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-12-02 (839 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2) PackageArchitecture: all PackageVersion: 5.0.32-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2 RelatedPackageVersions: dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.1 apt 1.2.20 SourcePackage: virtualbox Title: virtualbox-dkms 5.0.32-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2: virtualbox kernel module failed to build UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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