with non free stuff, it's just not practical to recode stuff every other week, especially when I know that nvidia is going to have working versions of their legacy drivers very soon. It's quite rare for them not to have this, by the way, for new kernels, my guess is it was the holiday season, literally, so they figured, ah, the betas are working, we'll wait til after new year's.

The kernel cleanup option I agree is working fine, the bug xadras mentioned is almost certainly from something in his own development cycle, he does siduxcc if I remember right, that's not my issue but probably some oversight in his testing is my guess.

You're right that it's easy to grep for package names in listing of a directory, but basically, I'm lazy, and that's the easy part, the hard part is making that output user interactable, so to speak. Generally, the core logic is the easiest part, not always, but usually, the user interface stuff is about 10x more code, but one of these days I'll probably get around to enhancing the cleanup options further to handle also vmware downloads, vbox downloads, non free binary run package downloads, and assorted cruft that builds up in /usr/src or the smxi directories for its data in there.

In general, with sgfxi, I prefer to make the error handler work for all cases, not this particular month's, so the error you see there is simply the error that sgfxi gives for any driver, regardless of type of vintage, that has no support for the kernel you are installing to.

If nvidia doesn't have working stable drivers out by the end of hte week though I might have to add more than the warning message that is already in smxi warnings about 2.6.28+ legacy nvidia cards.
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aus9, I added an updated error message for the single case where kernel + non beta drivers fail, this should help without requiring any major changes to anything else.

The warning will appear before the install actually starts, but after the initial continue messaged in sgfxi, I think anyway, can't remember.

Also added in sgfxi missing kernel header handling, will try some options first like install missing from apt, from smxi kernel-downloads, then error out.
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Hi

thanks for that.

1) I am currently having a problem with my file sharing host but I just did a search of the /var/log/smxi and could find no reference to virtualbox so

I think there is an issue with attempting to install the additions (as a separate) request in the section for non-ose vbox

this is probably because its internal to the that package
/usr/lib/virtualbox/additions

so you may want to delete that part of the script?

2) AFAIK there is no separate download for it anymore?
www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

cheerio
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I'll look into it. The iso, last I checked, is still available, but it's very hidden.

But it might be mismatched now, let me see if I can find the information again for update.
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If you have any time, could you please update the virtualbox install option to handle 2.1.2?

# Debian 4.0 ("Etch") i386
download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/2.1.2/virtualbox-2.1_2.1.2-41885_Debian_etch_i386.deb
# Debian 4.0 ("Etch") AMD64
download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/2.1.2/virtualbox-2.1_2.1.2-41885_Debian_etch_amd64.deb
# Debian 5.0 ("Lenny") i386
download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/2.1.2/virtualbox-2.1_2.1.2-41885_Debian_lenny_i386.deb
# Debian 5.0 ("Lenny") AMD64
download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/2.1.2/virtualbox-2.1_2.1.2-41885_Debian_lenny_amd64.deb

VirtualBox 2.1.2 (released 2009-01-21)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

* USB: improved support for recent Linux hosts
* VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)
* VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x
* VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)
* VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761)
* VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)
* VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898)
* VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM
* VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058)
* VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only)
* VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only)
* VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only)
* VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts
* VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests
* VMM: speed improvements for real mode and protected mode without paging (software virtualization only)
* GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory
* GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type
* VBoxSDL: fixed -fixed fixedmode parameter (bug #3067)
* Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only, bug #2675 and #3003)
* 3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications (bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)
* LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)
* VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize events were not properly handled (bug #2783)
* VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V on Mac OS X hosts
* VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)
* VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up to correct ones (bug #2895)
* IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)
* Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)
* Networking: fixed intermittend BSODs when using the new host interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)
* Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
* Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
* Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
* NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)
* NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)
* NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)
* SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable
* SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized (2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)
* SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files (Linux host only, bug #2796)
* SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like formatting a drive
* SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown
* VRDP: fixed loading of libpam.so.1 from the host (Solaris hosts only)
* VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects
* VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection
* VBoxManage showvminfo: fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)
* VBoxManage convertfromraw: added parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files; fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)
* VBoxManage clonehd: fixed garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)
* VBoxManage guestproperty: fixed property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)
* VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files (bug #2768)
* Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)
* Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)
* Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a single, unified package
* Linux hosts: don’t depend on libcap1 anymore (bug #2859)
* Linux hosts: compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1
* Linux hosts: don’t drop any capability if the VM was started by root (2.1.0 regression)
* Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine’s battery reaches critical level
* Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window
* Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is doing 3D
* Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon
* Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta
* Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)
* Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing files on shared folders (bug #2764)
* Windows Additions: fixed Ctrl-Alt-Del handling when using VBoxGINA
* Windows Additions Installer: Added /extract switch to only extract (not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)
* Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions (bug #2938)
* Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on Linux guests
* Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set fmode on mapped shared folders (bug #1776)
* Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders (bug #1612)
* Linux Additions: ignore noauto option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)
* Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)
* X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)

Thank you very much.
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2.1.2 added, thanks
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Hi

The new layout of the manual is very clean and easy to read.

at the smxi.org site...faq or manual....my eyes can not spot the mention that this is GPL?

if its missing maybe the FAQ could say so?

2) I know the script is..... as I can open it...but if I post a link to someone I would like them to see it is GPL straight away ....if that is convenient

cheers
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To me this is self evident, but make a concrete suggestion as to where such a note should be placed.

The donation and smxi-story already discuss free software a bit, and quote from the GPL material on gnu.org, but suggest where such information should be inserted.

I guess maybe in the about pages, yes, I'll put it in there I guess.

And I'll add a faq, though to me this is obvious, and the only person who really would care could easily see that it's gpl by opening any file.

<update> I added a faq item on the main FAQ page.
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Hi h2,
I'm using sidux with the latest slh-kernel. I read the page fpr smxi sticky options a while ago and set this value:



So, I expected to see beta or RC kernels if they are available, but I did not see any of this kernel version since I set this value for smxi. At this moment there's the 2.6.29-rc* kernel from slh in sidux.com/debian/pool/exp.main/l/linux-sidux-2.6/ so I wonder why smxi does not show me this option in the advanced kernel options. Is this options just for pure debian kernels? It's not really important, just wanna learn about the various options of smxi.
greetings w.
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I need to remove the -K option, I'm not creating advanced kernel zip files any longer. In the past, before sidux had real kernel debs in apt repos, I'd zip up their experimental kernels and offer those if you used the -K option, but I'm not doing that any more, since you can enable sidux experimental repos in sources, same for liquorix experimentals.

If you want to get latest experimentals from sidux, simply enable sidux exp.main repo in sources.list or sidux.list, and smxi will list them as it does any other kernel, it always lists the latest available for your default kernel type, sidux, debian, liquorix.

Simply add, after sid (or unstable), exp.main to existing sidux string:


Oh, I forgot, also see this how to add experimental sources for advanced kernels thread.

<update>There are now also no references to the -K option, or should be none, for smxi on smxi.org, if you find one, after refreshing the page F5, it's a documentation bug, -K is now fully deprecated.
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