[ros-dev] Setupapi & VBox additions

Thomas Faber thfabba at gmx.de
Tue Oct 4 07:20:53 UTC 2011


Hi,

I've been looking at VirtualBox 4.1.x guest additions, which don't install
in ROS [1] and came up with a patch [2] that seems to fix them.

While patchbot says this is okay [3] (and the last hunk even fixes a few
setupapi tests), I am very unsure about the SP_COPY_NOOVERWRITE part.
The correct solution might instead be to handle SetupCopyOEMInf returning
ERROR_FILE_EXISTS or I might be "fixing" something in the completely
wrong place.

It would be great if someone with some insight into setupapi
(Eric? Hervé? ;]) could review this and give some pointers.

Thanks!

-Thomas

[1] http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6522
[2] http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=6753
[3] http://www.reactos.org/testman/compare.php?ids=8272,8294,8303,8305

Patch explanation:
- The first hunk isn't really required, but I guess it shouldn't break
  anything, and seems to find what it's looking for this way.
- The second hunk is in the code path used by VBox guest additions setup.
  It is apparently called with an already-existing inf file, but I have
  no idea why. :|
- The third hunk is a trivial bug that our CreateService just didn't
  complain about before r53872/r53886



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