Hello Felix, I've prepared the patch for this issue (attached). VBox has become a necessity in my workflow. It'd be really helpful if you could review and make a release.
Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System
From 9b2bc93acc13ff4e390d8d6ef97d8b1e680f486f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <r...@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:29:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix VBox network interface error on Linux 3.11
---
debian/changelog | 7 +++++++
debian/patches/38-linux-3.11-vboxnet.patch | 17 +++++++++++++++++
debian/patches/series | 1 +
3 files changed, 25 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 debian/patches/38-linux-3.11-vboxnet.patch
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 80638c5..4b61d4f 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+virtualbox (4.2.16-dfsg-3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+ * Fix VBox network interface error on Linux 3.11
+ - Add 38-linux-3.11-vboxnet.patch
+
+ -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf <r...@debian.org> Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:25:29 -0400
+
virtualbox (4.2.16-dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=low
[ Whoopie ]
diff --git a/debian/patches/38-linux-3.11-vboxnet.patch b/debian/patches/38-linux-3.11-vboxnet.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ec16ab9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/38-linux-3.11-vboxnet.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Fix vbox network interface error in linux 3.11. Patch taken from upstream at ticket #12001
+Index: virtualbox/src/VBox/HostDrivers/VBoxNetFlt/linux/VBoxNetFlt-linux.c
+===================================================================
+--- virtualbox.orig/src/VBox/HostDrivers/VBoxNetFlt/linux/VBoxNetFlt-linux.c 2013-09-13 13:16:20.016285000 -0400
++++ virtualbox/src/VBox/HostDrivers/VBoxNetFlt/linux/VBoxNetFlt-linux.c 2013-09-13 13:22:15.460285000 -0400
+@@ -1804,7 +1804,11 @@
+
+ {
+ PVBOXNETFLTINS pThis = VBOX_FLT_NB_TO_INST(self);
++#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3, 11, 0)
++ struct net_device *pDev = netdev_notifier_info_to_dev(ptr);
++#else
+ struct net_device *pDev = (struct net_device *)ptr;
++#endif
+ int rc = NOTIFY_OK;
+
+ Log(("VBoxNetFlt: got event %s(0x%lx) on %s, pDev=%p pThis=%p pThis->u.s.pDev=%p\n",
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index c1924d2..0dd7d2b 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -15,3 +15,4 @@
35-libvdeplug-soname.patch
36-fix-vnc-version-string.patch
37-linux-3.11.patch
+38-linux-3.11-vboxnet.patch
--
1.8.4.rc3
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