VirtualBox video driver for kernel 4.8.*

KostyantynIvanov · n00b Joined: 31 Oct 2016 Posts: 2

Hi

I have an unmasked version of Gentoo on VirtualBox.
I found that xf86-video-virtualbox cannot be built for kernel 4.8 because of some changes in timer API. This issue is already fixed by VirtualBox team - https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/15695
Is it possible to add new version to xf86-video-virtualbox to the portage?

Thanks

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2016 4:14 pm Post subject:

You can create local overlay, copy xf86-video-virtualbox-5.0.20-r1.ebuild with name xf86-video-virtualbox-5.1.8.ebuild, create manifest and try to install.
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KostyantynIvanov · n00b Joined: 31 Oct 2016 Posts: 2

Thank you. It works for xf86-video package as well as for guest package. But both ebuild files requires some modifications