2014/1/14 Manuel VIVES <manuel.vives@diateam.net>:

Hi,

While working on adding virDomain*Stats support to the vbox driver, we found bugs in the VirtualBox API C bindings. These bugs have been fixed in versions 4.2.20 and 4.3.4. However, the changes in the C bindings are incompatible with the vbox_CAPI_v4_2.h and vbox_CAPI_v4_3.h files which are bundled in libvirt source code. This is why the following patch adds vbox_CAPI_v4_2_20.h and vbox_CAPI_v4_3_4.h.

As stated by Matthias Bolte, the actual underlying problem here is that libvirt assumes that VirtualBox API can only change between release versions (4.2 -> 4.3), but we have a case here where it changed (or got fixed) between minor versions (4.2.18 -> 4.2.20).

This patch makes the VBOX_API_VERSION represent the full API version number (i.e 4002 => 4002000) so there are specific version numbers for Vbox 4.2.20 (4002020) and 4.3.4 (4003004)

As the patch is too big for the mailing list, it is publicly available at http://git-lab.diateam.net/cots/libvirt.git/ with the branch name 'vbox-4.2.20-4.3.4-support-v2'

Regards, Manuel VIVES

ACK to the content of the patch. But the commit message itself lacks the explanation for this patch that is given in your mail. This should be included. Also as libvirt is currently in freeze for the upcoming release I suggest to delay pushing this patch until after the release, as the patch doesn't fix any current bug in the VirtualBox driver, but is a prerequisite for future patches. -- Matthias Bolte http://photron.blogspot.com