Guest Additions are broken when built with new versions of system Mesa

[Pulfer]

Most Linux distributions use system versions of Mesa instead of the bundled Mesa 7.2. But with new versions of Mesa Guest Additions are broken. For example, glxinfo reports (null) for "OpenGL renderer string" and other glGetString() requests.

This patch from Fedora is used for new Mesa support by various distributions:

​http://cvs.rpmfusion.org/viewvc/rpms/VirtualBox/devel/VirtualBox-4.3.10-mesa_guest.patch?revision=1.1&root=free&view=markup

Likely it's incomplete.

Perhaps Virtual Box 5.0+ should support Mesa 10+ because Mesa 7.2 is really old.

[Michael Thayer]

Which distributions is this known to be a problem on?

[VVD]

RHEL 6.7 - can't build video driver. May be it's same bug, but may be another.