I think there is definitely something wrong with the recent Virtualbox update.
I havent had any problems with my 10 or so VMs for months ( Win10, several Win Servers, Ubuntu) but right after installing this weeks update a couple crashed but came back up ok (so far), but the most important VM gets stuck during launch and I havent managed to get back in yet. Think I need to rollback as well. First time ever I have to do this.
Okay so itās working now with the 6.1.12-3 dkms but downloads are slow. At least itās not freezing and itās working on the 5.7.12 kernel. So iām sure when 5.8 is out it will not work again.
I have used qemu and vmware workstation but i prefer virtualbox and this is the first time i have had a problem with it. I find when i switch its always a problem getting them working right as iām not as familiar with them. I just find vbox easier to use but this time it is really broken. I had never used the dkms before so this is new. I have it working now so that itās not freezing and that will do for now.
@jonathon
I know you were just kidding about the going Arch comment. Sorry, if i came off a little annoyed. I was just getting frustrated with the freezing and didnāt understand what i needed to do to get this working again. I appreciate the help. Always willing to learn because i only know what i know and itās not much in the realm of things.
should work (or at least, it works for me with virtualbox-host-modules-dkms 6.1.12-4 with linux and linux-zen). However, it did need a bit of juggling with unloading kernel modules and reinstalling the ext pack and a couple of reboots to make it all align correctly.
Basically, if you update and it doesnāt work then reboot before trying anything else.
I am using a similar set of packages to what @jonathon lists above, though today a new version of host modules came out. My packages are:
linux 5.8.1.arch1-1
virtualbox 6.1.12-4
virtualbox-ext-oracle 6.1.13.139853-1
virtualbox-host-modules-arch 6.1.12-9
I have run both Win10 and EOS guests without issues with the above packages installed. I did reboot after the package installs - it seems like the virtualbox-host-modules-arch donāt play nice without the reboot.
I downgraded the host modules to .8 and have now got the exact same line up:
$ uname -a
Linux hermes 5.8.1-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed, 12 Aug 2020 18:50:43 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ yay -Q | grep virtualbox
virtualbox 6.1.12-4
virtualbox-ext-oracle 6.1.13.139853-1
virtualbox-guest-iso 6.1.12-1
virtualbox-host-modules-arch 6.1.12-8
And a reboot later (required RESUB) I am getting systemd core dumps: Process 2478 (VirtualBoxVM) of user 1000 dumped core
And because the process is not there any longer VirtualBox tells me the kernel driver is not installed.
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