Bug 1689750 - VBoxService stops with error VERR_VERSION_MISMATCH if VirtualBox server is version 6.0.4
Summary: VBoxService stops with error VERR_VERSION_MISMATCH if VirtualBox server is ve...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: virtualbox-guest-additions
Version: 30
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Hans de Goede
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2019-03-18 02:24 UTC by Sergio Basto
Modified: 2019-04-01 11:20 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: virtualbox-guest-additions-6.0.4-2.fc29 virtualbox-guest-additions-6.0.4-2.fc28 virtualbox-guest-additions-6.0.4-2.fc30
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Last Closed: 2019-03-25 06:05:19 UTC
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journalctl -u vboxservice.service (25.57 KB, text/plain)
2019-03-18 02:24 UTC, Sergio Basto
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Description Sergio Basto 2019-03-18 02:24:32 UTC
Created attachment 1545056 [details]
journalctl -u vboxservice.service

Description of problem:

After upgrade my VirtualBox host to 6.0.4, VBoxService on guest stops to work , time synchronization stops, shared folder also stops , only vboxvideo still working .

Building virtualbox-guest-additions in old way with kmods from VirtualBox source and adding binary mount.vboxsf.
Also I had to hack fedora kernel and delete staging vbox*.ko , install new kmods run depmod and finally I could verify guest-additions works as expect . 

Of course I don't know how is fixed  , hopefully I didn't update virtualbox-server in stable branches .

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2019-03-20 09:25:04 UTC
virtualbox-guest-additions-6.0.4-2.fc30 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 30. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-97610b52ff

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2019-03-20 09:25:12 UTC
virtualbox-guest-additions-6.0.4-2.fc29 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-90d0665c95

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2019-03-20 09:25:20 UTC
virtualbox-guest-additions-6.0.4-2.fc28 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 28. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-d90f21bd4b

Comment 4 Hans de Goede 2019-03-20 09:40:26 UTC
Hi,

Thank you for the bug report.

So there are 2 issues involved here:

1) When running virtualbox-guest-additions-6.0.x on a 6.0.x host, vboxservice.service will fail to start with a VERR_VERSION_MISMATCH error
This is caused by the mainline kernel version of vboxguest missing a new vboxguest feature which is used by the 6.0.x extensions on a 6.0.x host.

I've prepared a kernel-patch for this and submitted it upstream. I will also add this patch to the Fedora kernels, so that it will get picked up with the next official Fedora kernel build.

2) virtualbox-guest-additions now has 2 seperate code-paths for auto-mounting shared folders, one for when running on a 5.x.x host and for when running on a 6.0.x host. This means that 0001-VBoxServiceAutoMount-Change-Linux-mount-code-to-use-.patch needed updating to also cover the new 6.0.x host paths. I've prepared a set of virtualbox-guest-additions updates fixing this, these should show up in updates-testing with the next push.

Regards,

Hans

Comment 5 Hans de Goede 2019-03-20 11:54:36 UTC
Note the kernel changes also require some changes to the vboxsf driver (currently in rpmfusion) for it to build against kernels with these changes.

These changes are available here:
https://github.com/jwrdegoede/vboxsf/

I've implemented them in such a way that that code will build against both the old and new mainline-kernel vboxguest APIs.

I'm still working on getting vboxsf merged upstream.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2019-03-20 22:02:32 UTC
virtualbox-guest-additions-6.0.4-2.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-90d0665c95

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2019-03-20 22:18:12 UTC
virtualbox-guest-additions-6.0.4-2.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-d90f21bd4b

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2019-03-21 19:12:07 UTC
virtualbox-guest-additions-6.0.4-2.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-97610b52ff

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2019-03-25 06:05:19 UTC
virtualbox-guest-additions-6.0.4-2.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2019-03-26 16:14:52 UTC
kernel-tools-5.0.4-300.fc30 kernel-headers-5.0.4-300.fc30 kernel-5.0.4-300.fc30 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 30. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-4e7590b99c

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2019-03-26 16:16:31 UTC
kernel-tools-5.0.4-200.fc29 kernel-headers-5.0.4-200.fc29 kernel-5.0.4-200.fc29 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-0ba1e6642f

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2019-03-27 00:45:25 UTC
kernel-5.0.4-300.fc30, kernel-headers-5.0.4-300.fc30, kernel-tools-5.0.4-300.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-4e7590b99c

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2019-03-27 04:34:41 UTC
kernel-5.0.4-200.fc29, kernel-headers-5.0.4-200.fc29, kernel-tools-5.0.4-200.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-0ba1e6642f

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2019-03-29 02:04:06 UTC
virtualbox-guest-additions-6.0.4-2.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2019-03-29 02:59:05 UTC
kernel-5.0.4-200.fc29, kernel-headers-5.0.4-200.fc29, kernel-tools-5.0.4-200.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2019-03-29 19:18:34 UTC
virtualbox-guest-additions-6.0.4-2.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 17 Fedora Update System 2019-03-31 00:03:58 UTC
kernel-5.0.4-300.fc30, kernel-headers-5.0.4-300.fc30, kernel-tools-5.0.4-300.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 18 Sergio Basto 2019-03-31 01:23:12 UTC
BTW I just finish my tests and is working well and without any problem [1] 

Should I be concerned with [drm] VirtualBox host is too old, no cursor support ? 

[1]
[    0.000000] DMI: innotek GmbH VirtualBox/VirtualBox, BIOS VirtualBox 12/01/2006
[    0.128264] ACPI: RSDP 0x00000000000E0000 000024 (v02 VBOX  )
[    0.128268] ACPI: XSDT 0x0000000076AF0030 00003C (v01 VBOX   VBOXXSDT 00000001 ASL  00000061)
[    0.128275] ACPI: FACP 0x0000000076AF00F0 0000F4 (v04 VBOX   VBOXFACP 00000001 ASL  00000061)
[    0.128282] ACPI: DSDT 0x0000000076AF0470 0022EA (v02 VBOX   VBOXBIOS 00000002 INTL 20181213)
[    0.128293] ACPI: APIC 0x0000000076AF0240 00005C (v02 VBOX   VBOXAPIC 00000001 ASL  00000061)
[    0.128297] ACPI: SSDT 0x0000000076AF02A0 0001CC (v01 VBOX   VBOXCPUT 00000002 INTL 20181213)
[    1.432883] ata2.00: ATAPI: VBOX CD-ROM, 1.0, max UDMA/133
[    1.764982] ata1.00: ATA-6: VBOX HARDDISK, 1.0, max UDMA/133
[    1.765782] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      VBOX HARDDISK    1.0  PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[    1.768016] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM            VBOX     CD-ROM           1.0  PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[    2.068535] vboxguest: host-version: 6.0.4r128164 0x80000007
[    2.070226] input: VirtualBox mouse integration as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/input/input5
[    2.081139] vboxguest: misc device minor 57, IRQ 20, I/O port d020, MMIO at 0x00000000f0400000 (size 0x0000000000400000)
[    3.108962] vboxvideo: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[    3.110947] [drm] VirtualBox host is too old, no cursor support
               ^^^^

[    3.114733] fbcon: vboxdrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[    3.136294] vboxvideo 0000:00:02.0: fb0: vboxdrmfb frame buffer device
[    3.141923] [drm] Initialized vboxvideo 1.0.0 20130823 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
[  192.391318] vboxsf: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[  192.391438] vboxsf: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel

Comment 19 Hans de Goede 2019-04-01 11:20:34 UTC
(In reply to Sergio Monteiro Basto from comment #18)
> BTW I just finish my tests and is working well and without any problem [1] 
> 
> Should I be concerned with [drm] VirtualBox host is too old, no cursor
> support ? 

That should not happen, but if you are not seeing any negative side-effects I would not worry about it. I cannot reproduce this myself using a 6.0.x host with the very latest kernelcode, I guess this might be a bug in the version of the vboxvideo code used in your kernel which is fixed in the latest version of the vboxvideo code.


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