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