[vbox-dev] Problem with kernel 5.8

[Sérgio Basto]

Hi,

On Tue, 2020-07-14 at 09:17 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 6/8/20 4:12 AM, Frank Batschulat wrote:
> > Larry, thanks - this work will be tracked with:
> > 
> > Ticket #19644 (accepted defect)
> > Linux kernel version: 5.8 - we need changes
> > https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/19644
> 
> Just a heads-up to all the distro maintainers that read this list. I
> have not 
> found a fix that works to allocate executable memory in vboxdrv. When
> kernel 
> 5.8.0 is released, EVERY VM on a host trying to run that kernel will
> break! The 
> ticket shown above has my fixes for the other API changes in 5.8, but
> the 
> removal of the exports to allocate executable memory are not fixed.

Thank you for this information , the newest VirtualBox 6.1.12 bring any
news about kernel 5.8 ? 

Best regards,
-- 
Sérgio M. B.