On Sat, 1 Aug 2015 17:59:11 -0700 walt <w41ter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Arch updated vbox to 5.0.0 on 22 July, so I'm wondering if anyone is > actively using it, and if you've had any problems with it. > > I certainly had a catastrophic problem when I tried it on my everyday > gentoo desktop machine recently. (I'm replying to myself because this is for everyone in the thread) Just as an experiment I decided to install the vbox-5.0.0 guest modules in my Arch vbox guest while running vbox-4.3.30 on my host machine. (Seems like a good recipe for disaster, but no :) I installed virtualbox-guest-dkms-5.0.0-1 and used dkms to build and install the modules. (No errors, which amazed me because I build my own kernels from kernel.org.) I installed virtualbox-guest-utils-5.0.0-1 and enabled vboxservice with systemctl. And it all just works. I still can't quite believe it. I expect it will all be broken tomorrow morning when I wake up, but meanwhile I'm liking Arch a lot ;)
