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

[Dawid Zamirski]

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.
> 
> Regards,
> Dawid

Another try after realizing it's for official NEWS entry :-)

"Added support for API compatibility with VitualBox 5.1.x"