Comments on: Compilation of VirtualBox add-ins for Ubuntu 9.10

By: mloskot

mloskot — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:45:33 +0000

Hi David,

You are welcome. I’m glad you’ve found it helpful.

By: David Johnson

David Johnson — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:43:54 +0000

Thanks so much for posting this. I’d tripped over exactly this issue and never would have figured it out myself.

By: mloskot

mloskot — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:17:34 +0000

@spblinux I’m glad it is helpful. Thanks for the comment and improved patch.

By: spblinux

spblinux — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:02:49 +0000

For those who do not want to upgrade to vbox 3.x but have kernel 2.6.31:
the patch above simply disables vboxvfs (virtual folders for guest):
modules remains unloaded because of unknown symbol.
But your blog entry made it easy to find the solution.

In my case, virtualbox-2.2.4 this patch works:

--- a/vboxvfs/utils.c	2009-09-07 17:20:13.000000000 +0200
+++ b/vboxvfs/utils.c	2009-09-07 17:25:36.000000000 +0200
@@ -25,6 +25,11 @@
 #include
 #include 

+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION (2, 6, 31)
+int utf8_mbtowc(wchar_t*pu, const __u8*s, int len){return utf8_to_utf32(s,len,(unicode_t *)pu);}
+int utf8_wctomb(__u8*s, wchar_t u, int maxlen){return utf32_to_utf8((unicode_t)u,s,maxlen);}
+#endif
+
 /* #define USE_VMALLOC */

 #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION (2, 6, 0)

By: mloskot

mloskot — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:29:05 +0000

You’re welcome!

By: darkblue_b

darkblue_b — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:13:14 +0000

thank you mloskot.. this is great to catch..
(I filed a bug report on FireWire handling, just so you know.. :-)