On 12 Mar 2026 at 17:46, Samuel Sieb wrote:
Date sent: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:46:09 -0700
Subject: Re: Fedora has broken VirtualBox with 6.19.6
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From: Samuel Sieb <[email protected]>
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> On 3/12/26 4:46 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> > Again the 6.18.16 kerenel works fine, but 6.19.6 kernel fails. So, it
> > is something Fedora has done. Perhaps it will be fixed. But the one
> > page had said Fedora had restricted things to KVM only, so
> > virtualbox couldn't get access to the features required to build the
> > akmods
>
> Why do you keep saying it's something Fedora did? All Fedora did was
> update the kernel to 6.19. It's a problem with virtualbox, nothing
> specific to Fedora. You're getting bad information or else
> misinterpreting it.
Just took a look at updates testing, and it shows a kernel update
along with lots of others. Then did a look with just kernel updates.
No VirtualBox or akmods showing.
Not sure why it is showing removal of 6.17.1 and 6.18.16?
Had recently updated machine from FC42 to FC43.
No fc42 files in /boot?
4:44am here, so not going to test it at this time.
But interesting that an update to kernel 6.19.7 is in the works.
rpm -qa | grep kernel-core
kernel-core-6.18.16-200.fc43.x86_64
kernel-core-6.17.1-300.fc43.x86_64
kernel-core-6.19.6-200.fc43.x86_64
Did just check an autoremove, and it showed no fc42 kernel
# dnf autoremove
Package Arch Version
Repository Size
Removing:
python3-jsonschema noarch 4.23.0-6.fc43
fedora 906.7 KiB
python3-jsonschema-specifications noarch
2024.10.1-6.fc43 fedora 46.2
KiB
python3-referencing noarch 0.36.2-5.fc43
fedora 336.5 KiB
python3-rpds-py x86_64 0.27.0-2.fc43
fedora 747.8 KiB
Transaction Summary:
Removing: 4 packages
After this operation, 2 MiB will be freed (install 0 B, remove 2 MiB).
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Running transaction
[1/5] Prepare transaction
100% | 3.0 B/s | 4.0 B | 00m01s
[2/5] Removing python3-jsonschema-0:4.23.0-6.fc43.noarch
100% | 3.2 KiB/s | 120.0 B | 00m00s
[3/5] Removing
python3-jsonschema-specifications-0:2024.10.1-6.fc43.noarch
100% | 4.6 KiB/s | 47.0 B | 00m00s
[4/5] Removing python3-referencing-0:0.36.2-5.fc43.noarch
100% | 5.0 KiB/s | 51.0 B | 00m00s
[5/5] Removing python3-rpds-py-0:0.27.0-2.fc43.x86_64
100% | 13.0 B/s | 20.0 B | 00m02s
Complete!
Interesting if nothing else? Perhaps when it gets to updates repo.
# dnf update kernel* --enablerepo=updates-testing
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Package Arch Version
Repository Size
Removing:
kernel-core x86_64 6.17.1-300.fc43
fedora 97.9 MiB
kernel-devel x86_64 6.18.16-100.fc42
updates 80.9 MiB
kernel-modules-core x86_64 6.17.1-300.fc43
fedora 68.3 MiB
Upgrading:
kernel-devel-matched x86_64 6.19.7-200.fc43
updates-testing 0.0 B
replacing kernel-devel-matched x86_64
6.19.6-200.fc43 updates
0.0 B
kernel-tools x86_64 6.19.7-200.fc43
updates-testing 918.1 KiB
replacing kernel-tools x86_64 6.19.6-200.fc43
updates 918.1 KiB
kernel-tools-libs x86_64 6.19.7-200.fc43
updates-testing 30.3 KiB
replacing kernel-tools-libs x86_64 6.19.6-200.fc43
updates 30.3 KiB
Installing:
kernel x86_64 6.19.7-200.fc43
updates-testing 0.0 B
kernel-core x86_64 6.19.7-200.fc43
updates-testing 98.0 MiB
kernel-devel x86_64 6.19.7-200.fc43
updates-testing 87.5 MiB
kernel-modules x86_64 6.19.7-200.fc43
updates-testing 96.2 MiB
kernel-modules-core x86_64 6.19.7-200.fc43
updates-testing 70.6 MiB
kernel-modules-extra x86_64 6.19.7-200.fc43
updates-testing 4.2 MiB
Transaction Summary:
Installing: 6 packages
Upgrading: 3 packages
Replacing: 3 packages
Removing: 3 packages
Total size of inbound packages is 222 MiB. Need to download 222
MiB.
After this operation, 109 MiB extra will be used (install 357 MiB,
remove 248 MiB).
Is this ok [y/N]:
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