> On May 10, 2022, at 7:06 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, this is your Linux kernel regression tracker. > > On 10.05.22 02:12, Zack Rusin wrote: >>> On May 9, 2022, at 6:57 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> wrote: On 4/11/22 16:24, Zack Rusin wrote: >>>> On Mon, 2022-04-11 at 10:52 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Fedora has received a bug report here: >>>>> >>>>> https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugzilla.redhat.com%2Fshow_bug.cgi%3Fid%3D2072556&data=05%7C01%7Czackr%40vmware.com%7C2dca2a7c731c42c9cdc608da327534e3%7Cb39138ca3cee4b4aa4d6cd83d9dd62f0%7C0%7C0%7C637877776243955067%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=iN4JPTRDJaUqU%2FciQSCdGWg45yDA8iZEAyKBWB80IZ4%3D&reserved=0 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> > That Fedora rawhide VMs no longer boot under the VirtualBox >>>>> hypervisor after the VM has been updated to a 5.18-rc# kernel. >>>>> >>>>> Switching the emulated GPU from vmwaregfx to VirtualBoxSVGA >>>>> fixes this, so this seems to be a vmwgfx driver regression. >>>>> >>>>> Note I've not investigated/reproduced this myself due to >>>>> -ENOTIME. >>>> >>>> Thanks for letting us know. Unfortunately we do not support >>>> vmwgfx on VirtualBox. I'd be happy to review patches related to >>>> this, but it's very unlikely we'd have to time to look at this >>>> ourselves. >>> >>> I somewhat understand where you are coming from, but this is not >>> how the kernels "no regressions" policy works. > > Hans, many thx for writing your mail, I once intended to write something > similar, but then forgot about it. :-/ > >>> For the end user a regression is a regression and as maintainers we >>> are supposed to make sure any regressions noticed are fixed before >>> a new kernel hits end user's systems. >> >> I think there’s a misunderstanding here - the vmwgfx driver never >> supported VirtualBox. VirtualBox implementation of the svga device >> lacks a bunch of features, > > Which from the kernel's point of view is irrelevant. If the Linux > kernel's vmwgfx driver ever supported the VirtualBox implementation then > things shouldn't regress with later versions. It never did. vmwgfx is just a driver for VMware's SVGA device, it never supported anything else. z
