Allow Mir/Unity8 to run inside Virtualbox

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No logs required this is just a patch to enable prime support

Hi, I saw the patch on mail list some hours ago, however I would appreciate:
1) upstream merging it before fixing the Ubuntu package
2) some other developer doing that :)

what do you think?

I am not sure how close the ubuntu version of virtualbox is to the svn trunk. I feared that even if it gets integrated soon it might take some time until that patch is picked up. So since the change has no dependencies towards other pieces of the virtualbox package, I thought we could benefit from having another convenient VM working with unity8.

Maybe look again next week whether there is upstream activity?

The attachment "Path for vboxvideo module to allow importing and exporting of dmabuf fd" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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I'm doing some testing in my ppa already
https://launchpad.net/~costamagnagianfranco/+archive/ubuntu/locutusofborg-ppa/+packages

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox - 5.1.14-dfsg-3

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virtualbox (5.1.14-dfsg-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Andreas Pokorny ]
  * Add support for Unity8 (LP: #1669807)

  [ Gianfranco Costamagna ]
  * Update virtualbox desktop file.

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Fri, 03 Mar 2017 19:28:43 +0100

So since the patch is now in the virtualbox package it still needs to be picked up by the next kernel update?

@kernel folks, please look at:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-virtualbox/virtualbox.git/commit/?id=bcdf0a6d1924367b99cf5c30b5f0e8f9bd0cb079

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Will this get to xenial as well?

Thanks for reminding me. I meant to target xenial a couple of hours ago.

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.10.0-13.15

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linux (4.10.0-13.15) zesty; urgency=low

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1671614

  * ehci-platform needed in usb-modules udeb (LP: #1671589)
    - d-i: add ehci-platform to usb-modules

  * irqchip/gic-v3-its: Enable cacheable attribute Read-allocate hints
    (LP: #1671598)
    - irqchip/gic-v3-its: Enable cacheable attribute Read-allocate hints

  * iommu: Fix static checker warning in iommu_insert_device_resv_regions
    (LP: #1671599)
    - iommu: Fix static checker warning in iommu_insert_device_resv_regions

  * QDF2400: Fix panic introduced by erratum 1003 (LP: #1671602)
    - arm64: Avoid clobbering mm in erratum workaround on QDF2400

  * QDF2400 PCI ports require ACS quirk (LP: #1671601)
    - PCI: Add ACS quirk for Qualcomm QDF2400 and QDF2432

  * tty: pl011: Work around QDF2400 E44 stuck BUSY bit (LP: #1671600)
    - tty: pl011: Work around QDF2400 E44 stuck BUSY bit

  * CVE-2017-2636
    - tty: n_hdlc: get rid of racy n_hdlc.tbuf

  * Sync virtualbox to 5.1.16-dfsg-1 in zesty (LP: #1671470)
    - ubuntu: vbox -- Update to 5.1.16-dfsg-1

 -- Tim Gardner <email address hidden> Thu, 09 Mar 2017 06:16:24 -0700