linux-kernel - Re: vboxhost fails to build on 3.13

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Message-ID: <1821868.Zl9MnkIPDQ@ws-stein>
Date:	Mon, 02 Dec 2013 17:17:55 +0100
From:	Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@...tec-electronic.com>
To:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>
Cc:	Souvik Banerjee <souvik1997@...il.com>,
	"Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: vboxhost fails to build on 3.13

On Monday 02 December 2013 11:02:10, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Souvik Banerjee <souvik1997@...il.com> wrote:
> > commit 930aa174fcc8b0efaad102fd80f677b92f35eaa2
> > Author: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
> > Date:   Mon Oct 7 11:29:37 2013 +0100
> >
> >     sched/numa: Remove the numa_balancing_scan_period_reset sysctl
> 
> Then vboxhost needs to be modified to work with the newer kernel.
> That's what happens when they keep the drivers out-of-tree.  You
> should report the issue to the vbox people as they're the only ones in
> a position to actually fix their driver.

Even better use current version which has the fix included (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog):
VirtualBox 4.3.4 (released 2013-11-29)
[...]
Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.13 compile fixes (bug #12358)

Regards,
Alexander

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