On Fri, 2024-04-19 at 00:43 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
Good luck, and drop many breadcrumbs for those that are following behind you ...
David, I hope I can gain some time by a workaround to continue using virtualbox 7 [1]. However, I consider to migrate my Windows guests or at least the Windows 11 guest to QEMU. It's just that I don't have time at the moment to learn how to set up Samba or to follow any alternative approach mentioned by https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/QEMU#Sharing_data_between_host_and_guest . I'm already running a QEMU/KVM Linux guest using Virtual Machine Manager. It's as easy as using virtualbox, just sharing data isn't that straight forward. Virtualbox 6.1.50 doesn't work anymore on my machine [2]. Maybe I just need to rebuild it against some probably updated dependency or maybe I need to downgrade the kernel or to run the LTS kernel or ... or ... [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2165804#p2165804 [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/virtualbox6.1-bin#comment-968033