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xorg: init xf86-video-vboxvideo at 1.0.0 #50280

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@vcunat vcunat commented Nov 12, 2018 •
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... and switch to it by default in virtualbox guests

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#31889

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xorg: init xf86-video-vboxvideo at 1.0.0
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... and switch to it by default in virtualbox guests
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Thanks for doing this!!! The only thing i would want to make sure is that it’s kept reasonably up to date from version to version.

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vcunat commented Nov 12, 2018 •
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So far they've only released a single version. It gets compiled against our default xorg-server, just like all our standard X drivers.

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nixos/modules/services/x11/xserver.nix
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ let

# Map video driver names to driver packages. FIXME: move into card-specific modules.
knownVideoDrivers = {
virtualbox = { modules = [ kernelPackages.virtualboxGuestAdditions ]; driverName = "vboxvideo"; };
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@vcunat I think we should leave in virtualbox guest additions for other things. I believe it provides more than just the driver. If it's listed last, I think it will get lower precedence in the case of conflicts.

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Actually, didn't realize this only effects xserver, so disregard the previous comment.

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Tried it on Windows 10 amd64 virtualbox host, log: https://gist.github.com/jhillyerd/6ab6d20ea440c4da2865bbb34db24cc8

The driver does load now, but still falls back to modeset for me. Might be my vbox setup though.

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That’s what it should do i think.

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vcunat commented Nov 14, 2018

It's X driver. I can't see any relation to text-mode modesetting, if that's what you mean.

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Merge #50280: xorg: init xf86-video-vboxvideo ...
e229065 
Based on reports X wouldn't start out of the box and seems OK now.
In case there are still some problems, we can improve later.
I checked that nixos.tests.virtualbox.* still succeed.
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vcunat commented Nov 14, 2018 •
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I wonder – this might even be safe enough for 18.09, given the (supposedly) broken state of X before the change. Still, I know really nothing about VMs, so I won't do that myself, at least until getting more feedback.

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If I understand correctly, modesetting is also a video driver of sorts that can draw on basic framebuffer. But I haven't spent time configuring Xorg in years, so I'm very out of the loop.

[    13.108] (II) VBoxVideo: guest driver for VirtualBox: vbox
[    13.108] (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers: kms
[    13.111] (II) vboxvideo: kernel driver found, not loading.
[    13.112] (II) modeset(0): using drv /dev/dri/card0

I don't understand the "kernel driver found" part.

This PR didn't make anything worse for me, X worked before and after it.

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vcunat commented Nov 14, 2018

Oh, I've been blind. You end up using the modesetting driver, both before and after this PR :-/

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One should be able to use this fix by switching to 19.03, right?

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vcunat commented Feb 28, 2019

Yes, unstable or 19.03. But I'm not really confident this change fixed anything.

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I don't think this fixed things for me.

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