Comment # 14
on bug 1187011
from Lawrence Somerville
I discovered that on
https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:Factory/virtualbox/fixes_for_leap15.2.patch?expand=1
all references to VirtualBox were to version 6.1.20 of it. However, I had
grateful success executing VBoxLinuxAdditions.run to have VirtualBox Guest
Additions ���������built��������� for a Leap-15.2 ���������guest��������� operating system in VirtualBox
6.1.22r144080 (amd64), which I likely installed on April 29, 2021, using at
least the Linux kernel version 5.3.18-lp152.72.1.x86_64 on April 30, 2021 and,
with no indication of any problem in my notes in such ���������building,��������� using the
Linux kernel version 5.3.18-lp152.75.1.x86_64 on May 13, 2021! During the
interim of time from the release of Leap 15.2 on probably July 2, 2020 up to
the release of Leap 15.3 on June 2, 2021 the following VirtualBox versions were
released by Oracle Corporation (reference:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_6_1 on the Internet):
6.1.12 (released on July 14, 2020),
6.1.14 (released on September 4, 2020),
6.1.16 (released on October 16, 2020),
6.1.18 (released on January 19, 2021),
6.1.20 (released on April 20, 2021), and
6.1.22 (released on April 29, 2021).
And on July 2, 2020, the probable date of Leap 15.2���������s release, VirtualBox
6.1.10 was already publicly available, as of June 5, 2020. Yet there is no
mention on
https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:Factory/virtualbox/fixes_for_leap15.2.patch?expand=1
of any changes within openSUSE Leap-15.2, VirtualBox-related computer software
to accommodate versions 6.1.12-6.1.18 of VirtualBox! I note that the time
interval between the releases of VirtualBox 6.1.20 and VirtualBox 6.1.22, was
unusually short, only nine days (references: https://www.virtualbox.org/ and
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_6_1 on July 10, 2021).
So otherwise lacking explanations for these data, I here use reason to make
some guesses, which might be incorrect, to TRY to explain these and other data.
My guesses:
1. Perhaps versions 6.1.20 and 6.1.22 of VirtualBox could work with the same
Linux kernel versions released by openSUSE Leap 15.2 regarding the execution of
VBoxLinuxAdditions.run from VirtualBox. Assuming so, after the backporting of
computer code to make VirtualBox 6.1.20 work in this regard with the latest
Linux kernel released through a Leap-15.2 repository had been kindly completed
by you, Larry Finger, perhaps no additional backporting of computer code was
necessary to make VirtualBox 6.1.22 work in this regard in Leap 15.2.
2. Perhaps on
https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:Factory/virtualbox/fixes_for_leap15.2.patch?expand=1
only necessary changes made which would include making the execution of
VBoxLinuxAdditions.run from VirtualBox work for the latest version of
VirtualBox were displayed on
https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:Factory/virtualbox/fixes_for_leap15.2.patch?expand=1.
So how well did I do, Larry Finger, in my above guesses? Now, Larry, you might
have wondered why I would be interested to know from you to which versions of
the VirtualBox and the Linux kernel your backporting of Linux-kernel code would
apply without me testing this matter by executing VBoxLinuxAdditions.run from a
version of VirtualBox. If so, here is one answer to this question.---On August
1, 2015 on
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/508902-Issues-installing-guest-additions-(Virtualbox)/page2
poster tsu2 was quoted as probably previously writing or saying, ���������If you think
you might be happy with just re-sizing the display, check whether that still
works or not. If not, then your attempts to build your own Guest Additions
may have broken it and may need to be replaced anyway.��������� And unfortunately this
might have already occurred in my Leap-15.3 computer software. In addition,
somehow I lost the capabilities 1) to see folders in my Windows-10 ���������host���������
operating system in my openSUSE ���������guest��������� operating system using a folder set up
within VirtualBox to be shared between my Windows-10 ���������host��������� and openSUSE
���������guest��������� operating systems and 2) to copy and ���������paste��������� text between those two
operating systems via the computer ���������clipboard.��������� The logically simplest, yet
most time-consuming option I can imagine to solve all three of these problems
is for me to return to a state of my Leap-15.3 ���������guest��������� operating system in
which none of those three problems existed by a) restoring my Leap-15.2
computer software from a backup of the data on my computer���������s hard-disk drive,
b) upgrading from Leap 15.2 to Leap 15.3, c) at least partially updating Leap
15.3 computer software. Then, assuming I will then have a well-working
Leap-15.3 installation, I should have another backup of the data on my
hard-disk drive written. At that point in time I would have a way to recover
my Leap-15.3 installation if I would cause any problems for myself by, for
example, failing a test of the execution of VBoxLinuxAdditions.run from Oracle
Corporation���������s VirtualBox 6.1.22 or a later version of its VirtualBox. But, of
course, it would be better if I would instead of making such a test with ahead
of time an unknown result know from you, Larry, whether your backporting work
will have been completed successfully or not for a given version of VirtualBox
and version of the Linux kernel released from an openSUSE, Leap, online
repository.
Now, Larry, you might recall or else be interested to know why I prefer to have
VirtualBox Guest Additions ���������built��������� by executing Oracle Corporation���������s VirtualBox
file VBoxLinuxAdditions.run instead of relying on VirtualBox Guest Additions
from an online, openSUSE repository. It is actually a preference you can find
on https://en.opensuse.org/VirtualBox, which reads, ���������By default openSUSE
installs the Virtualbox guest additions automatically when it's installed as a
Virtualbox guest.
However, as of openSUSE 11.4 the packaged Guest Additions version is slightly
old, and may not allow use of Shared Folders with a Windows XP host for
example.���������
���������To install the latest version from terminal follow these steps:������������������
Assuming that it might take openSUSE software developers some time to produce
and release VirtualBox Guest Additions from openSUSE online repositories which
would be compatible with a version of VirtualBox just released by Oracle
Corporation, instead whenever I have gratefully been successful in having
VirtualBox Guest Additions ���������built��������� using Oracle Corporation���������s own VirtualBox
computer software this has in part been relying on Oracle Corporation���������s
computer software to be compatible with itself. And in Leap 15.2 this
procedure gratefully at least eventually worked well for me for a number of
versions of the Linux kernel supplied through an online, openSUSE, Leap
repository and for a number of versions VirtualBox supplied by Oracle
Corporation. Thank you, Larry, for your past work of backporting computer code
which has made the execution of files with the name VBoxLinuxAdditions.run from
Oracle Corporation���������s VirtualBox work for me in a number of versions of
VirtualBox and Linux kernels supplied through an openSUSE Leap repository!