Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 0/2] vbox: add support for 5.1.x

On Fri, 2016-11-18 at 11:16 -0500, Dawid Zamirski wrote: >  > Hi Andrea, >  > Sure, in this case those patches simply enable support of VirtualBox > 5.1.x series in libvirt (prior to that libvirt supported vbox 2.x.x > to > 5.0.x)- and as such it does not affect any previous version that > libvirt supported.  When upstream VirtualBox releases new version > bumping major/minor version tag it is usually coupled with new COM > IID > strings that are bundled in the SDK which essentially bumps the VBOX > API version as well. Adding those SDK headers to livirt, enables it > to > communicate with the updated VBOX COM interface and avoids > "unsupported > API version" error message when one does virsh -c vbox:///session > with > VirtualBox 5.1.x installed on the machine.   Another try after realizing it's for official NEWS entry :-)   "Added support for API compatibility with VitualBox 5.1.x"