svmi :: latest features

[techAdmin]

Big set of bug fixes, should finally fix the broken vbox non ose installation of guest additions.

Cleaned up all code, added more error handling and error logging to improve debugging and end user control.

got rid of exit on non critical script errors and replaced with warn user then return to script for non fatal error conditions like a package failing to download.

Tnanks to orbit for his/her patience to get this issue finally resolved.

[Crust]

Is it possible to have the kernel module rebuilding for the vbox-non-ose work for people who get virtualbox from the virtualbox repos? i.e., just running:

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/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

[techAdmin]

how would svmi know if it is a deb based install via dpkg or an apt based install from non ose sun repos?

[Crust]

does it need to know? can't it just look for

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/etc/init.d/vboxdrv

or

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/etc/init.d/vboxdrv-ose

and run

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/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

or

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/etc/init.d/vboxdrv-ose setup

if it finds the file and depending on which file it finds?

The repo packages and the deb package names are different so the svmi logic will not work with packages installed from sun's repos.

[Crust]

If it helps, the package name of the latest version of virtualbox from sun's repos is:

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virtualbox-3.0

[techAdmin]

I'd have to look at the logic, I don't remember anymore why one method was used and not another.

if /etc/init.d/virtualbox exists and accepts that non-ose build module command it can probably be updated I'd guess.

[iotaka]

New VirtualBox 3.0.8 for Linux

[techAdmin]

updated

[Crust]

Thanks for looking into it. Half of my systems use the sun repos for virtualbox, and I'm really liking how they are packaging virtualbox and maintaining their repos.

[techAdmin]

crust, svmi already does this for non ose modules: if you select the build vbox non ose module option, that's the command it runs.

What I wonder is if that should be the command ose runs as well, currently it checks for module deb first, then m-a module.

However, that looks like it might have been broken because of that bug that was just fixed re getting the installed version data, and that should also be working again now as a side affect of fixing that bug, re non ose modules.

Just to make sure, show me this output from a sun repo installed vbox non ose:

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dpkg -l | grep virtualbox | awk '{print $2}'