[vbox-dev] Linux Additions init script bug (Linux 4.0)

[Marcos Felipe Rasia de Mello]

2015-03-03 16:57 GMT-03:00 Frank Mehnert <frank.mehnert at oracle.com>:
> On Tuesday 03 March 2015 13:37:24 Larry Finger wrote:
>> On 03/03/2015 05:43 AM, Marcos Felipe Rasia de Mello wrote:
>> > And we are bitten again.
>> >
>> > https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-dev/2013-August/011718.html
>> >
>> > Suggestion (plus grep cleanup):
>> >
>> > --- vboxadd.sh.orig     2014-05-06 07:02:16.000000000 -0300
>> > +++ vboxadd.sh  2015-03-03 08:27:39.199344842 -0300
>> > @@ -286,8 +286,8 @@
>> >
>> >   start()
>> >   {
>> >
>> >       begin "Starting the VirtualBox Guest Additions ";
>> >
>> > -    uname -r | grep -q -E '^2\.6|^3' 2>/dev/null &&
>> > -        ps -A -o comm | grep -q '/*udevd$' 2>/dev/null ||
>> > +    expr `uname -r` '>=' '2.6' >/dev/null &&
>> > +        ps -A -o comm | grep -q '/*udevd$' ||
>>
>> Ah, a long-term solution! :)
>>
>> Seriously, is anyone going to be using VirtualBox on any version of Linux
>> older than 2.6? After all, 2.6.32 is the only 2.6 kernel still being
>> maintained at kernel.org.
>
> That doesn't matter. The VirtualBox Guest Additions still support Linux 2.4
> and I see no reason to restrict the code to newer kernels. Of course that's
> completely different on hosts.
>

Run legacy stuff in VMs is pretty common. It is a virtualization
selling point after all.