[SOLVED] CentOS 6.7 guest in VBox 4.3.12 (Win 7 host)

[4hr1m4n]

Hi,

I installed CentOS 6.7 amd64 in VirtualBox 4.3.12 (WIndows 7 Enterprise SP1 64-bit host) but, as many others here, I had problems building the OpenGL driver that comes with VB Guest Additions.

None of the patches that are available at https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Virtuali ... entOSguest worked for me, so I had to break the stone by myself. I came up with the following patch that seems to work well:

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--- vboxvideo_drm.c.orig	2014-05-16 08:16:17.000000000 -0400
+++ vboxvideo_drm.c	2015-11-05 11:12:01.485680441 -0500
@@ -73,6 +73,10 @@
 #   if RHEL_RELEASE_CODE >= RHEL_RELEASE_VERSION(6, 4)
 #    define DRM_NO_RECLAIM_BUFFERS
 #   endif
+#   if RHEL_RELEASE_CODE >= RHEL_RELEASE_VERSION(6, 7)
+#    define DRM_RHEL67
+#    define DRIVER_BUS_PCI
+#   endif
 #  endif
 # endif
 
@@ -119,7 +123,9 @@
         .open = drm_open,
         .release = drm_release,
         .unlocked_ioctl = drm_ioctl,
+#ifndef DRM_RHEL67
         .mmap = drm_mmap,
+#endif
         .poll = drm_poll,
 };
 #endif

I hope this might help other people.

Enjoy it!

[4hr1m4n]

I forgot to mention that I also had to execute the following steps before trying to install the Guest Additions:

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# cd /usr/include/uapi
# ln -s ../drm

And my kernel is 2.6.32-573.7.1.el6.x86_64.

Cheers.

[TrevorH]

You almost certainly shouldn't be using such an old version of VirtualBox. There are much newer 4.3.x versions available with those bugs already corrected.

[4hr1m4n]

Agreed. However there are things to consider, like these: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13187

This is what has pushed me to the old version. Moreover, even the newest version at this moment (5.0.8) has the same problem: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=54910