On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 14:04 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi,
On 2/20/20 1:47 PM, Justin Forbes wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 4:34 AM Hans de Goede <hdegoede(a)redhat.com
> <mailto:hdegoede@redhat.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Fedora kernel-team,
>
> The vboxsf file-system driver for accessing folders shared by a
> vbox host from a (Fedora) guest
> has finally been merged upstream in 5.6-rc1.
>
> I've discussed how to move forward with this with Sergio (in
> the Cc)
> who currently maintains a kmod for this in rpmfusion.
>
> Sergio's preference is to switch to the in tree version ASAP.
>
> As such I would like to backport the 5.6 patch to 5.5 and at it
> to
> the stabilization branch, if this is ok with you ?
>
> This will be a single patch adding a new fs/vboxsf directory
> and a single new Kconfig option, the fs-driver is fully self
> contained and this patch can be dropped when we switch to the
> 5.6
> kernels.
>
> I am okay with this, though 5.5 is on F31 now, so you can skip
> stabilization. Thanks for coordinating with Sergio.
Great, thank you. I've pushed the necessary changes to the f31
branch,
so that they can be picked up with the next build.
Cool , Thanks .
I will take care of virtualbox-guest-additions package which finally
will work OOTB :)
Best regards,
--
Sérgio M. B.