Re: Up to date Sid: Custom kernel, trying to install Virtualbox
On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 22:55 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Curt Howland wrote:
> > Also, VB was crashing my system quite reliably last time I had it
> > installed, and I just got a new CPU. Since I assume VB was accessing
> > some damaged part of my old CPU, I wanted to try VB before and after
> > the CPU swap to get a before/and/after comparison.
>
> I am sure you will enjoy your new machine but with the vbox driver the
> problems you were having probably wasn't your hardware.
>
> The VirtualBox Kernel Driver Is Tainted Crap
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTk5Mw
>
> RFC: virtualbox tainting.
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/6/317
I'm sharing virtualbox settings for Ubuntu and Arch and never had
troubles, I used it with at least Suse too and I guess also on Debian.
There never were issues running XP and Linux in VBox.
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