Opened 13 years ago
Last modified 5 years ago
#8336 closed defect
Guest Additions kernel modules not bitness clean (32bit userspace on 64bit kernel) -> won't fix for now — at Version 3
| Reported by: | Fernando | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | guest additions | Version: | VirtualBox 4.0.2 |
| Keywords: | mouse, cursor | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | Linux | Host type: | Linux |
Description (last modified by )
When booting a 64bit kernel inside a 32ul, the mouse integration fails with
from Xorg.0.log
[ 81.214] (EE) VBoxVideo(0): Unable to determine whether the virtual machine supports mouse pointer integration - request initialization failed with return code -2
from dmesg
ioctl32(X:17150): Unknown cmd fd(9) cmd(c0245603){t:'V';sz:36} arg(ffc487ec) on
/dev/vboxguest
Change History (7)
by , 13 years ago
| Attachment: | Gentoo32UL-2011-02-13-12-55-57.log added |
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comment:2 by , 13 years ago
| Summary: | Guest Additions video and mouse integration fail to function inside 32ul with a 64bit kernel → Guest Additions kernel modules not bitness clean (32bit userspace on 64bit kernel) -> won't fix for now |
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This is not something that we will be able to resolve in the near future, as the Guest Additions kernel code is not 32bit/64bit clean, and unfortunately the issue isn't important enough to justify the review of the code that would be needed to fix that just now.
comment:3 by , 13 years ago
| Description: | modified (diff) |
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