3.0 beta 1 will not work with linux kernels >= 2.6.31

[typerlc]

Fedora rawhide (fc12) has moved to linux kernel 2.6.31. This kernel removes backwards compatibility for the old network driver api. Only the new net_driver_ops structure api is supported.

This means that vbox 3.0 beta 1 won't work on this kernel. For that matter, none of the 2.x stream will work either.

See here for discussion of this change in 2.6.31: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/27566/

This causes compilation failures in VBoxNetAdp-linux.c. Here's output from a sample build failure:

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make KBUILD_VERBOSE= -C /lib/modules/2.6.31-0.11.rc0.git13.fc12.i686.PAE/build SUBDIRS=/tmp/vbox.3 SRCROOT=/tmp/vbox.3 modules
  CC [M]  /tmp/vbox.3/linux/VBoxNetAdp-linux.o
In file included from /tmp/vbox.3/include/VBox/intnet.h:34,
                 from /tmp/vbox.3/linux/../VBoxNetAdpInternal.h:26,
                 from /tmp/vbox.3/linux/VBoxNetAdp-linux.c:48:
/tmp/vbox.3/include/VBox/stam.h:69:7: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vbox.3/linux/VBoxNetAdp-linux.c: In function ‘vboxNetAdpNetDevInit’:
/tmp/vbox.3/linux/VBoxNetAdp-linux.c:169: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘open’
/tmp/vbox.3/linux/VBoxNetAdp-linux.c:170: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘stop’
/tmp/vbox.3/linux/VBoxNetAdp-linux.c:171: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘hard_start_xmit’
/tmp/vbox.3/linux/VBoxNetAdp-linux.c:172: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘get_stats’
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vbox.3/linux/VBoxNetAdp-linux.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vbox.3] Error 2

[Sasquatch]

The 2.6.31 kernel is still in development. Don't bother asking for support here. Go complain at Fedora, or just use an older kernel until it's final. Support from VB will come in due time.

Locked. Don't ask here for kernel support when it's not final. And it's not 3.0 specific, older VB versions will have the same problem.