[SRU] virtualbox 6.1.50 and 7.0.14

The [ Possible regressions ] section of the bug description should be renamed to 'Where Problems Could Occur' and include information about where problems could occur not a statement about upstream testing.

Additionally, to make things easier for any testers the [ Test Plan ] should contain more details about how to test virtualbox and what scenarios to test. I mentioned this in the last SRU of virtualbox, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-guest-additions-iso/+bug/2017101/comments/28, using details from the microrelease exception wiki page.

Hello Gianfranco, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-ext-pack into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-ext-pack/6.1.50-1~ubuntu1.22.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Hello Gianfranco, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/6.1.50-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.22.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Hello Gianfranco, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-hwe into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-hwe/6.1.50-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.22.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Hello Gianfranco, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-guest-additions-iso into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-guest-additions-iso/6.1.50-1~ubuntu1.22.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Hello Gianfranco, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-guest-additions-iso into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-guest-additions-iso/6.1.50-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Hello Gianfranco, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-hwe into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-hwe/6.1.50-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Hello Gianfranco, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/6.1.50-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Hello Gianfranco, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-ext-pack into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-ext-pack/6.1.50-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Hello Gianfranco, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-ext-pack into mantic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-ext-pack/7.0.14-1~ubuntu1.23.10.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-mantic to verification-done-mantic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-mantic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Hello Gianfranco, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-guest-additions-iso into mantic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-guest-additions-iso/7.0.14-1~ubuntu1.23.10.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-mantic to verification-done-mantic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-mantic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Hello Gianfranco, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox into mantic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/7.0.14-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.23.10.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-mantic to verification-done-mantic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-mantic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Hello Gianfranco, or anyone else affected,

Accepted virtualbox-hwe into mantic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-hwe/7.0.14-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.23.10.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-mantic to verification-done-mantic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-mantic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Host OS: Ubuntu 23.10.

Guest OSes: Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 23.10.

Everything seemed to go as planned, however with 3d acceleration enabled the start button in Windows 8.1 turned black when hovered over. Not sure why. However with the previous version of VirtualBox installing Guest Additions and then switching to 3d acceleration killed the VM entirely, so, I'm inclined to say than unless I've hit a transient glitch with the older VirtualBox, we at least have an upgrade from before!

From community vbox members:
Tried all sorts of oter aspects, installed/reinstalled current GAs and not having the code signing failure on win7 etc... tried with 5.15 and 6.5 kernels, in short it all looks good atop jammy
i.e the 6.1.50

Tested with a Focal host with both HWE and GA kernels. Used Windows 10 and 11 and Ubuntu 20.04 as guest VMs. I ran into some slight graphical oddities on Windows 11 + 3d acceleration, but I was able to disable transparency in Windows 11 and that seemed to help.

actually, I'm a bit worried - 3d accel also is giving me strange file explorer behavior. I'm going to try an earlier VBox version and see if I can reproduce the problem there too.

alright, not a regression, Focal is good to go.

Hello all,

first, thanks for all the testing that several people spent time on!

I'm trying to gauge whether the test plan was followed appropriately. Some of the things are perhaps implied, like, when a tester says "3d acceleration worked", that might imply that, I don't know, vboxdrv built, or that guest-additions was installed. This is the key thing: I'm not familiar with virtualbox, and don't know for sure.

Specifically, the SRU description asks for these tests:
"""
Start a windows VM (generally w10, w11, w8.1).
Update the guest additions from iso pack inside the VM.
Reboot the VM.
Check if the VM starts correctly and the acceleration works.
Start a linux VM (generally ubuntu LTS or Debian stable).
Update the guest additions from iso pack inside the VM.
Reboot the VM.
Check if the VM starts correctly and the acceleration works.
Remove guest additions and install the virtualbox-guest-x11 package (linux only).
Check if vboxdrv is correctly built, check if *.ko modules are built on the target linux VM.
Install virtualbox inside the VM and check if it can start correctly.
"""

In the absence of clear statements that the above was done, can someone more familiar with the package please help and verify that these tests were done?

I can see that some obviously were, like "start a windows VM", or "acceleration works". But how about "vboxdrv is correctly built", or that guest additions from iso pack inside the vm were installed, or if virtualbox-guest-x11 was installed? This is all not clear to me, sorry...

Hello, vboxdrv is correctly built, because otherwise the VM will refuse to start with a big error on screen like "missing vboxdrv module".
Theoretically both guest-x11 and guest-additions should be tested, that said, the guest-x11 package is more open source w.r.t. Debian policy, and might be preferred for some users.
And yes, all combinations should be tested. (and from what I know have been)

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-hwe - 7.0.14-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.23.10.1

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virtualbox-hwe (7.0.14-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.23.10.1) mantic; urgency=medium

  * Build only the guest-* packages with hwe stack

virtualbox (7.0.14-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.23.10.1) mantic; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu mantic (LP: #2050891).

virtualbox-hwe (7.0.14-dfsg-1ubuntu1.24.04.1) noble; urgency=medium

  * Build only the guest-* packages with hwe stack

virtualbox (7.0.14-dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Bump kbuild dependency to fix an SDL related build failure
  * Update get-orig-source.sh script
  * New upstream version 7.0.14-dfsg
  * Update copyright years
  * Refresh patches

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Jan 2024 13:53:18 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-guest-additions-iso - 7.0.14-1~ubuntu1.23.10.1

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virtualbox-guest-additions-iso (7.0.14-1~ubuntu1.23.10.1) mantic; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu mantic (LP: #2050891).

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:10:44 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-ext-pack - 7.0.14-1~ubuntu1.23.10.1

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virtualbox-ext-pack (7.0.14-1~ubuntu1.23.10.1) mantic; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu mantic (LP: #2050891).

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:08:27 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox - 7.0.14-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.23.10.1

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virtualbox (7.0.14-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.23.10.1) mantic; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu mantic (LP: #2050891).

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Jan 2024 13:46:45 +0100

The verification of the Stable Release Update for virtualbox-hwe has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-hwe - 6.1.50-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.22.04.1

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virtualbox-hwe (6.1.50-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.22.04.1) jammy; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu jammy (LP: #2050891).

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Jan 2024 13:35:53 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-guest-additions-iso - 6.1.50-1~ubuntu1.22.04.1

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virtualbox-guest-additions-iso (6.1.50-1~ubuntu1.22.04.1) jammy; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu jammy (LP: #2050891).

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Jan 2024 13:25:22 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-ext-pack - 6.1.50-1~ubuntu1.22.04.1

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virtualbox-ext-pack (6.1.50-1~ubuntu1.22.04.1) jammy; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu jammy (LP: #2050891)
  * Update postinst

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Jan 2024 13:27:58 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox - 6.1.50-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.22.04.1

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virtualbox (6.1.50-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.22.04.1) jammy; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu jammy (LP: #2050891).

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Jan 2024 13:29:45 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-hwe - 6.1.50-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1

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virtualbox-hwe (6.1.50-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1) focal; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu focal (LP: #2050891).
  * Revert drop of *guest-dkms packages for focal only.
    Such packages are still needed because kernel < 5.5. doesn't provide
    vboxsf
  * Revert switch to dh-sequence-dkms, not enough new dkms is available in
    focal

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Jan 2024 13:38:07 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-guest-additions-iso - 6.1.50-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1

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virtualbox-guest-additions-iso (6.1.50-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1) focal; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu focal (LP: #2050891).

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Jan 2024 13:25:22 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox-ext-pack - 6.1.50-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1

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virtualbox-ext-pack (6.1.50-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1) focal; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu focal (LP: #2050891)
  * Update postinst
  * Revert compat level to 12, the last available in focal

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Jan 2024 13:27:58 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox - 6.1.50-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1

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virtualbox (6.1.50-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1) focal; urgency=medium

  * SRU the latest package for Ubuntu focal (LP: #2050891).
  * Revert drop of *guest-dkms packages for focal only.
    Such packages are still needed because kernel < 5.5. doesn't provide
    vboxsf
  * Revert switch to dh-sequence-dkms, not enough new dkms is available in
    focal

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Jan 2024 13:34:30 +0100