On Tuesday 03 March 2015 13:37:24 Larry Finger wrote: > On 03/03/2015 05:43 AM, Marcos Felipe Rasia de Mello wrote: > > And we are bitten again. > > > > https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-dev/2013-August/011718.html > > > > Suggestion (plus grep cleanup): > > > > --- vboxadd.sh.orig 2014-05-06 07:02:16.000000000 -0300 > > +++ vboxadd.sh 2015-03-03 08:27:39.199344842 -0300 > > @@ -286,8 +286,8 @@ > > > > start() > > { > > > > begin "Starting the VirtualBox Guest Additions "; > > > > - uname -r | grep -q -E '^2\.6|^3' 2>/dev/null && > > - ps -A -o comm | grep -q '/*udevd$' 2>/dev/null || > > + expr `uname -r` '>=' '2.6' >/dev/null && > > + ps -A -o comm | grep -q '/*udevd$' || > > Ah, a long-term solution! :) > > Seriously, is anyone going to be using VirtualBox on any version of Linux > older than 2.6? After all, 2.6.32 is the only 2.6 kernel still being > maintained at kernel.org.
That doesn't matter. The VirtualBox Guest Additions still support Linux 2.4 and I see no reason to restrict the code to newer kernels. Of course that's completely different on hosts. Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert | Software Development Director, VirtualBox ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Werkstr. 24 | 71384 Weinstadt, Germany Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
