Bug 609185 – VBox driver expects VirtualBox files to be at hard coded location

Bug 609185 - VBox driver expects VirtualBox files to be at hard coded location

Summary:	VBox driver expects VirtualBox files to be at hard coded location

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	libvirt (Show other bugs)
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Version:	14
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Daniel Veillard
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Reported:	2010-06-29 11:28 EDT by Justin Clift
Modified:	2010-10-21 13:57 EDT (History)
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Description Justin Clift 2010-06-29 11:28:46 EDT

Description of problem:

Different distributions have VirtualBox files in various locations.  For example: 

  /usr/lib/virtualbox
  /usr/lib/VirtualBox
  /opt/VirtualBox/
  (and likely others)

libvirt is presently hard coded to only check specific paths, therefore does not work properly if the VirtualBox installation is elsewhere.

This should be fixed by passing a path to the libvirt "configure" script, something like:

  ./configure --with-virtualbox=/path/to/virtualbox

If libvirt isn't given a path, then it should do a "best effort" guess, potentially probing common "known" paths.

(solution suggestion by Eric Blake)


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

0.8.1


How reproducible:

Every time.

Comment 1 Justin Clift 2010-07-01 21:43:02 EDT

This is the patch submitted upstream by Matthias Bolte:

  http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2010-June/msg00743.html

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2010-07-30 08:18:04 EDT

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 14 development cycle.
Changing version to '14'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 3 Dave Allan 2010-10-21 13:57:35 EDT

The fix was included in upstream 0.8.2.

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