[arch-general] 5.5 kernel - Latest virtualbox testcase build for 5.2.37 fails to start Arch guest on Arch host

[Erich Eckner]

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Hi David,

On Tue, 4 Feb 2020, David C. Rankin wrote:

> On 02/04/2020 12:42 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
>> On 02/04/2020 04:18 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
>>> lAll,
>>>
>>>   After update to 5.5 kernel and rebuild of virtualbox from the 5.2.36 and the
>>> latest testcase build for 5.2.37 (all kernel modules build and load fine)
>>>
>>> https://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/VirtualBox-5.2.37-135942-Linux_amd64.run
>>>
>>> Arch guests fail to run on Arch host. network device enp0s3 not found, udev
>>> kernel rules fail, and the boot never complete.
>>>
>>> All fine with the 5.4 kernel. I've posted to the vbox-users list, but if
>>> anyone here has additional information I would appreciate it.
>>>

Is there a specific reason, that prevents you from using virtualbox 6.1.2 
from [community] - am I missing something here?

>>
>> This explains Virtualbox does not support the 5.5 kernel -- no fix yet:
>>
>> Ticket #19145 (accepted defect)
>> Opened 8 weeks ago
>> linux: kernel 5.5-rc1/rc2 - we need changes
>> https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/19145
>>
>
> OK,

[ ... snip (sry, cannot really help here) ... ]

> Is anyone else experiencing problems with Virtualbox and has anyone else seen
> similar behavior? Any workarounds. I have a number of virtualbox guests I use.

On my end, everything works fine: I have
virtualbox 6.1.2-1 on an up-to-date archlinux host (linux 5.5.2.arch1-1) 
which runs archlinux32 guests (linux 5.5.2.arch1-1.0).

Again: I'm not sure if its the difference in virtualbox version or 
32-vs-64-bit linux guest.
Now, that I take a closer look at it, it seems, archlinux32 needs to catch 
up on the version of virtualbox-guest - it's still at 6.0.8 - instead of 
6.1.2.

>
> -- 
> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
>

regards,
Erich

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