On 2/17/21 03:48, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote: > Archdevs, > > You move of both linux and linux-lts to the same kernel is bewildering. That > eliminates all fallback capability lts provides. Currently, virtualbox Arch > guests are broken on 5.10 (as with most other distros). > > See: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/20055 > > With linux on 5.10 and lts on 5.4 it was workable to have lts guests. Now > you have linux and linux-lts as the same kernel. How does that make sense? > While others have addressed the kernel versioning aspect of this, I'd like to address the VirtualBox aspect of this. Unless you have a very specific need, I'd instead recommend using something like KVM[[0]-backed libvirt[1] or another KVM-backed hypervisor (or just KVM itself). It's fairly easy to convert over your existing Virtualbox guests[2] for something like libvirt. You'll not only see performance gains and some more Linux-host-friendly design/features, but you'll also be guaranteed to have it always work with the newest kernel you have installed (provided you've rebooted after a kernel update), as KVM's kernel integration is part of mainline Linux. [0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KVM [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Libvirt [2] https://www.utappia.org/2016/04/how-to-migrate-your-virtual-box.html -- brent saner https://square-r00t.net/ GPG info: https://square-r00t.net/gpg-info
