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The error concerning the kernel missing files is false ( "include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing." )

diff -uraN vboxguest-5.1.22.orig/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c vboxguest-5.1.22/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c
--- vboxguest-5.1.22.orig/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c    2017-07-04 14:33:29.068577884 +0200
+++ vboxguest-5.1.22/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c 2017-07-04 14:35:18.464574652 +0200
@@ -1084,18 +1084,14 @@
 # endif
                                 );
 #else /* LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(4, 6, 0) */
-            rc = get_user_pages(pTask,                  /* Task for fault accounting. */
-                                pTask->mm,              /* Whose pages. */
-                                R3Ptr,                  /* Where from. */
+           /* The following is modified for Leap 42.3 having the
+            *  get_user_pages() API from kernel 4.10
+            */
+            rc = get_user_pages(R3Ptr,                  /* Where from. */
                                 cPages,                 /* How many pages. */
-# if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(4, 9, 0)
                                 fWrite ? FOLL_WRITE |   /* Write to memory. */
                                          FOLL_FORCE     /* force write access. */
                                        : 0,             /* Write to memory. */
-# else
-                                fWrite,                 /* Write to memory. */
-                                fWrite,                 /* force write access. */
-# endif
                                 &pMemLnx->apPages[0],   /* Page array. */
                                 papVMAs);               /* vmas */
 #endif /* LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(4, 6, 0) */

diff -uraN vboxhost-5.1.22.orig/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c vboxhost-5.1.22/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c
--- vboxhost-5.1.22.orig/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c       2017-07-04 14:41:56.640562887 +0200
+++ vboxhost-5.1.22/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c    2017-07-04 14:42:41.748561554 +0200
@@ -1084,18 +1084,14 @@
 # endif
                                 );
 #else /* LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(4, 6, 0) */
-            rc = get_user_pages(pTask,                  /* Task for fault accounting. */
-                                pTask->mm,              /* Whose pages. */
-                                R3Ptr,                  /* Where from. */
+           /* The following is modified for Leap 42.3 having the
+            *  get_user_pages() API from kernel 4.10
+            */
+            rc = get_user_pages(R3Ptr,                  /* Where from. */
                                 cPages,                 /* How many pages. */
-# if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(4, 9, 0)
                                 fWrite ? FOLL_WRITE |   /* Write to memory. */
                                          FOLL_FORCE     /* force write access. */
                                        : 0,             /* Write to memory. */
-# else
-                                fWrite,                 /* Write to memory. */
-                                fWrite,                 /* force write access. */
-# endif
                                 &pMemLnx->apPages[0],   /* Page array. */
                                 papVMAs);               /* vmas */
 #endif /* LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(4, 6, 0) */

Andreas Stieger 2017-07-04 13:26:59 UTC

(In reply to Jean-Claude Dole from comment #3)
> Here a proposal for a temporary workaround from opensuse forum.
> PLease read :
> https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread. ... ll-oracle-
> virtualbox-5-1-5-1-22_115216#4

I think this workaround is for Oracle Virtualbox, not the kernel.

Comment 6 Axel Köllhofer 2017-07-04 13:39:54 UTC

(In reply to Andreas Stieger from comment #2)

> As noted in
> https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread. ... ll-oracle-
> virtualbox-5-1-5-1-22_115216?p=2828727#post2828727
> there is a patch for vbox, which our packages have but which are omitted
> from Oracle's.
>
> Larry, are you involved in Oracle's virtualbox at all? Can they fix their
> packages to work with our kernel?

Problem is, this patch only applies to the 4.4.x from 42.3 with a lot of backported code from newer versions and will break building the modules against the 4.4.x from 42.2.

So the only way for Oracle to fix this would be to supply an extra package especially for 42.3 containing that change and I don't know if that is very likely to happen.

AK

Comment 7 Andreas Stieger 2017-07-04 14:09:51 UTC

Yeah I do not think we can fix that for a third party package. Also we ship a working VirtualBox 5.1.22.

Slightly better autoconf magic may replace the pure version number comparison that the code seems to be doing.

Comment 8 Larry Finger 2017-07-04 16:55:08 UTC

(In reply to Andreas Stieger from comment #7)
> Yeah I do not think we can fix that for a third party package. Also we ship
> a working VirtualBox 5.1.22.
>
> Slightly better autoconf magic may replace the pure version number
> comparison that the code seems to be doing.

I would not expect Oracle to handle any breakage caused by backporting of kernel features that break the API/version correspondence. I am interested in the "autoconf magic" mentioned above. Please elaborate.

Comment 10 Andreas Stieger 2017-07-10 07:04:05 UTC

(In reply to Larry Finger from comment #8)
> (In reply to Andreas Stieger from comment #7)
> > Slightly better autoconf magic may replace the pure version number
> > comparison that the code seems to be doing.
>
> I would not expect Oracle to handle any breakage caused by backporting of
> kernel features that break the API/version correspondence. I am interested
> in the "autoconf magic" mentioned above. Please elaborate.

By that I mean that upstream may switch from comparing kernel version numbers to testing whether a particular API is available.............

socratis wrote:Try one on the 5.1.23 testbuilds from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds

Perryg wrote:

The error concerning the kernel missing files is false ( "include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing." )

Are you 100% certain it is false? Do those files actually exist for the running kernel?
Usually this happens when a distro updates a kernel and decides to make do with previous kernel headers/devels instead of updating them right away. You usually see this with RC kernels though because they are updating them at a faster rate and most do not need to re-compile external modules.

• 1) the latest release of VirtualBox that is supported is 42.1, but it appears to work in 42.2
  2) both the official version and the repo version fail pretty much the same and you can see the errors in the last of the vbox-install.log
  3) there has been chatter in the DEV mail about things that seem to be related but the bottom line is openSUSE has changed some things in the 42.3 kernel that is causing issues with VirtualBox.

Perryg wrote: ................

• 1) the latest release of VirtualBox that is supported is 42.1, but it appears to work in 42.2
  
  ................

Yes I use it until 42.3

Perryg wrote: ........................

I am trying to debug this but it may take a while since as I said openSUSE is not one of my main OSes and the difference takes a bit to figure out.

............................

You need virtualbox, virtualbox-qt and virtualbox-host-kmp-default.
But if you install virtualbox, the rest should be pulled in automatically.

And uninstall Oracle's VirtualBox package first, or you *will* encounter problems.

....... install the version from the standard 42.3 repo instead .............