On 12 Mar 2026 at 21:30, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: Date sent: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:30:21 -0400 Subject: Re: Fedora has broken VirtualBox with 6.19.6 To: [email protected] From: Richard Kimberly Heck <[email protected]> Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <[email protected]>
> On 3/12/26 7:46 PM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > > Again the 6.18.16 kerenel works fine, but 6.19.6 kernel fails. So, it > > is something Fedora has done. > > Unless I'm mistaken, the problem is caused by changes within the kernel > itself, not by anything to do with Fedora. Responsibility to adapt to > those changes seems to lie with the authors of VirtualBox, since it is > the modules they need that will not build with the new kernel. > I've seen some pages that show if works with other distros, but specifically says it doesn't work with Fedora, and only option is to boot with 6.18.16 on Fedora at momment. Specifically said that Fedora was only allowing access to low level CPU functions to KVM, so the VirtualBox can not get the required access. Will have to see if they can update the akmods to allow it to build. Adding "Fedora" in search generally shows those links. Currently have 8 linux machines all running Fedora 43. I build kernels from kernel.org for my own project G4L Latest has bz6x19.7 bz7x0.rc3 Have no issues with those, but is not using beyond text display. Build in most disk and networking devices for disk imaging, and recently moved from initrd setup going to be phased out 1/2027? Found lots of bad info on how to fix that, but eventually only required like 3 minor line changes. Right now booting to 6.18.16 allows it to work. > Riki > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
