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

[Dawid Zamirski]

On Fri, 2016-11-18 at 16:47 +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> Would you mind drafting one or two short sentences to describe
> the impact of these changes for users? If everything goes
> according to plans[1], they will be added to the NEWS file.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> [1] Which it often doesn't :)
> -- 
> Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization

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.

Regards,
Dawid