Virtualbox 6.1.12-4 fails

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Yes. But I don’t like downgrading :laughing:

Anyway, I have a backup setup ready to use just in case something break in Arch. Previous I used Kubuntu for the purpose. Now I use the new version of Neon because it has newer Plasma.

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not working for me either.
Don’t think its a kernel issue though

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The problem is fixed with the latest virtualbox-host-module-arch 6.1.12-8.

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My Win10 guest is still regularly killing my computer. Always hard crashes even when idling…
Anyone else with this issue?
I’m starting to think that the latest BIOS update for my X270 X570 board (new AGESA among others) might play a role in that…

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@anon31687413 - I run a Win10 guest (developer preview version), but I am not having any issue with it killing my laptop. You might be on to something looking at BIOS for your board.

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Thanks. My laptop is not really powerful enough, but I’m going to test it.

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Well, looks like it:
I’ve just learned that Asus has removed that BIOS version from their website.
Apparently it was a beta BIOS that got inadvertently published…
(Dear Asus, get a grip ffs!)

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Weird, I updated then rebooted and I’m using a Win10 guest right now without issue.

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Thanks for the feedback!
I’m going to install an older BIOS version and report back.

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but there is a conflict with dkms…
[roger@lenovo ~]$ sudo pacman -S virtualbox-host-modules-arch
[sudo] Mot de passe de roger :
résolution des dépendances…
recherche des conflits entre paquets…
:: virtualbox-host-modules-arch et virtualbox-host-dkms sont en conflit. Supprimer virtualbox-host-dkms ? [o/N]

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virtualbox-host-modules-arch is the prebuilt version for the linux kernel package.

virtualbox-host-dkms will build for all kernels.

Use the DKMS version if you’re using a kernel package which does not have a prebuilt module (e.g. linux-ck).

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How to downgrade all of virtualbox? Can’t get it to work the way it is.

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Grab the old virtualbox and virtualbox-host-modules-arch (or virtualbox-host-dkms) packages and install, or use downgrade.

But first, make sure you have updates for all three packages (assuming you’re using the extension pack):

I missed the updates to virtualbox-ext-oracle and before I had that VMs wouldn’t boot.

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I have this installed but virtualbox installs don’t work.

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Can you explain what you mean.

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Essentially, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgrading_packages

You can grab old package versions from the ALA (or e.g. my repo mirror).

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This doesn’t help because i don’t know what the earlier package is. I have very little experience downgrading packages.

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If I remember correctly, you set up your system with the BTRFS on LUKS guide. Take a look in /var/cache/pacman/pkg and see if you have older versions of the virtualbox packages.

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It will have the same package name, just an earlier version number (as given in the OP). You probably have these in your package cache still.

Have another read of the wiki page and post back if there’s something that doesn’t make sense.

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@ricklinux

You could poke around the Arch archive site. There is a good chance you can pick your date from a few days back and determine which packages would have been current for you at that time? Not a bullet proof approach, but maybe a git-er-done solution?

For example, you can see when different version of virtualbox package were added to the archive:
https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/v/virtualbox/