On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 3:21 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:17:07 +0100 > Nicolas Sebrecht <nsebre...@piing.fr> wrote: > >> The 22/11/11, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> > I use virtualbox and it's the one I recommend. >> > >> > The kernel modules are no better and no worse than any other >> > out-of-tree modules. >> >> You're wrong. Using the virtualbox module means you turn the kernel to >> "tained crap" because of the number of problems it causes, including >> random memory curruption. >> > > > Care to back that up with something resembling evidence? > > EVERY out-of-tree module will taint the kernel. As to whether it > deserves the "crap" moniker is a matter of opinion > > -- > Alan McKinnnon > alan.mckin...@gmail.com > >
Alan, I'm a happy Virtualbox user so I was surprised to see this post on the LKML which I suspect pushed the consciousness of this a bit more to the forefront: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/6/317 Now, I have no problems with Virtualbox but I have no reason to disbelieve these folks either. As with a lot of these things, it's the devil you know or the devil you don't know. I suspect the other less used solutions also have problems but not as many users, etc. - Mark
