Re: [VBox-users] No 5.2 branch for Linux 5.8 kernel forward? Is this right?
On 8/16/20 9:52 PM, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > While I cannot answer your question about 5.2, but I have a counter question: > Why was a 5.x feature removed from 6.x? Was it removed from the GUI or API as > well? Was this removal documented and whats the reason for feature removal? > > In general, I recommend against removing features that are useful and used by > people. > > -Alexey E. Alexey, To my knowledge there wasn't anything removed, there was just a problem with how 6.X formed read() size when running on a Linux host headless supporting windows guests across the network. Grabbing strace output of what was happening showed 6.x using a read size of 1 with 32-bit windows guests. This resulted in simple things like a "Dir" of a directory holding 200 files to take minutes to complete. The 5.2 branch never had this problem. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] No 5.2 branch for Linux 5.8 kernel forward? Is this right?
While I cannot answer your question about 5.2, but I have a counter question: Why was a 5.x feature removed from 6.x? Was it removed from the GUI or API as well? Was this removal documented and whats the reason for feature removal? In general, I recommend against removing features that are useful and used by people. -Alexey E. On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 at 3:21 David C. Rankin wrote: > Frank, all, > > Even though there are testbuilds for 5.2 (139677), according to > https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/19644 5.2 is unsupported. Does this mean > there will be no 5.2.46 that will build with the Linux 5.8 kernel? If so, > does > this also mean that the 5.2 testbuilds will not be fixed to work with the > 5.8 > kernel? > > I ask because I have maintained the 5.2 branch for Archlinux AUR for the > past few years. I did so because the 6.X branch would not work with > headless > guests across the network. Does this mean there will be no more 5.2 builds > (official or testbuilds) capable of supporting the Linux 5.8 kernel? > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. > > > ___ > VBox-users-community mailing list > VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community > ___ > Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net > ?subject=unsubscribe > -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
[VBox-users] No 5.2 branch for Linux 5.8 kernel forward? Is this right?
Frank, all, Even though there are testbuilds for 5.2 (139677), according to https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/19644 5.2 is unsupported. Does this mean there will be no 5.2.46 that will build with the Linux 5.8 kernel? If so, does this also mean that the 5.2 testbuilds will not be fixed to work with the 5.8 kernel? I ask because I have maintained the 5.2 branch for Archlinux AUR for the past few years. I did so because the 6.X branch would not work with headless guests across the network. Does this mean there will be no more 5.2 builds (official or testbuilds) capable of supporting the Linux 5.8 kernel? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
