[arch-general] Why move LTS to 5.10 when VirtualBox guests Kernel Panic with 5.10?

[brent s.]

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

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