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#1 2012-10-10 15:37:34

xzy3186
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[SOLVED] xorg-server 1.13.0-2 in virtualbox

With the latest xorg-server 1.13 in the testing, the vboxvideo.so from community/virtualbox-guest-utils 4.2.0-3 can not work anymore. Is there anybody knowing how to rebuild virtualbox-guest-utils to make it work with xorg 1.13? Thanks in advance.

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#2 2012-10-10 16:43:18

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Re: [SOLVED] xorg-server 1.13.0-2 in virtualbox

From https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10909

Frank Mehnert (Oracle) wrote:

Changed 4 weeks ago by frank

Ubuntu 12.10 is not yet released. We will add support for X.org server 1.13 soon.

Their definition of "soon" is already over 4 weeks, but ok.

You can track the latest source for vbox here:
https://www.virtualbox.org/browser/vbox … /vboxvideo

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#3 2012-10-11 04:07:45

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Re: [SOLVED] xorg-server 1.13.0-2 in virtualbox

Lekensteyn wrote:

From https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10909

Frank Mehnert (Oracle) wrote:

Changed 4 weeks ago by frank

Ubuntu 12.10 is not yet released. We will add support for X.org server 1.13 soon.

Their definition of "soon" is already over 4 weeks, but ok.

You can track the latest source for vbox here:
https://www.virtualbox.org/browser/vbox … /vboxvideo

I see, so we have to wait for the update from upstream. Thank you for the link. I will mark this thread as SOLVED.

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#4 2012-10-15 08:58:58

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Re: [SOLVED] xorg-server 1.13.0-2 in virtualbox

The upstream issue now links to a testing VBoxGuestAdditions iso which works for me at least. Saved my day smile

http://www.virtualbox.org/download/test … -81328.iso

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#5 2012-10-15 16:09:36

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Re: [SOLVED] xorg-server 1.13.0-2 in virtualbox

torkjel wrote:

The upstream issue now links to a testing VBoxGuestAdditions iso which works for me at least. Saved my day smile

http://www.virtualbox.org/download/test … -81328.iso

Thank you for the link.

The latest virtualbox-guest-utils released today also solved the problem.

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