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

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Fri, 2016-11-18 at 12:57 -0500, Dawid Zamirski wrote:
> 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"

Thanks, I've reworked it a bit and pushed it :)

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization