Hans de Goede

For Fedora 27 I'm working on making Fedora 27 a fully integrated VirtualBox guest, the plan is to have Fedora 27 Workstation ship with the VirtualBox Guest Additions installed out of the box, so that cut and paste, file sharing, etc. all will work out of the box for users running Fedora 27 in a VirtualBox vm.

As a first step towards this I'm working on getting the VirtualBox guest kernel drivers merged into the mainline Linux kernel. Up until now this has never been done because of userspace ABI stability concerns surrounding the guest drivers.

I've been talking to VirtualBox upstream about mainlining the guest drivers and VirtualBox upstream has agreed to consider the userspace ABI stable and only extend it in a backwards compatible manner.

I'm about to finish cleaning up the vboxvideo drm/kms driver, when I started working on this the files under /usr/src/vboxguest/vboxvideo as installed by VirtualBox 5.1.18 Guest Additions had a total linecount of 52681 lines. I've been submitting cleanups to VirtualBox upstream and the current VirtualBox upstream svn code is now under 8000 lines.

Update: I've submitted the vboxvideo driver for inclusion into drivers/staging, see this mailinglist thread.