On Wed, 2021-07-14 at 16:37 +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-07-14 at 14:58 +0000, George R Goffe via VBox-users-
> community wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Currently VB does not support "my" kernel on "my" Fedora Core 35
> > (Rawhide) system (5.14.0-
> > 0.rc0.20210709gitf55966571d5e.14.fc35.x86_64).
> > Trying to start VB (released versions?) gives an error message and
> > fails to even try to start. This is good because other versions of VB
> > (development versions?) do not check ahead of time to see if the host
> > kernel is supported and seem to go into a loop in the VB startup 
> > (kernel modules?)... which results in a non-killable process (looping
> > in one of the kernel modules?
> > 
> 
> First we only can do patches against rc1 , because only on rc1 internal
> versions change , and 5.14-rc1 have 3 days  , usually the firt place
> that have patches is here : 
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox 
> 

is here 
https://build.opensuse.org/source/Virtualization/virtualbox/fixes_for_5.14.patch?rev=5cd079e072875da1e15892ea0381f372

but is weird that you don't use sharedfolder provided by vanilla
kernel, IMHO you don't need this part of code with recent kernel ... 

> > Is there a way to find out whether a host kernel is supported or not?
> > 
> > I wrote a bug on this same topic which I understand now is not a
> > desirable thing to do. That bug  report is #20458.
> > 
> > Best regards and THANKS for the cool code AND help,
> > 
> > George...
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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Sérgio M. B.



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