On Tumbleweed, I have no issues on a Dell 7000 with a Gen 12 i7 with the 6.6.1 kernel as Host or Guest. user@LLR3:~> uname -a Linux LLR3 6.6.1-1-default #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Nov 9 05:27:56 UTC 2023 (1fcc265) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux user@LLR3:~> psg virtual root 1386 1 0 Nov14 ? 00:00:10 /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxwebsrv --background root 1390 1 0 Nov14 ? 00:00:02 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxXPCOMIPCD root 1413 1 0 Nov14 ? 00:01:27 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSVC --auto-shutdown user 14096 1 0 Nov14 ? 00:42:44 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxXPCOMIPCD user 14102 1 1 Nov14 ? 03:12:23 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSVC --auto-shutdown user 14130 14074 0 Nov14 ? 00:16:25 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox6 user 28091 14102 8 07:10 ? 00:00:57 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBoxVM --comment Mint --startvm da7f2283-4722-4d94-890a-93c03e4b8178 --no-startvm-errormsgbox user 28324 14102 8 07:11 ? 00:01:01 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBoxVM --comment Manjaro --startvm 1222f84b-36a0-4b58-b84a-526d7a225af5 --no-startvm-errormsgbox user 28564 14102 6 07:11 ? 00:00:44 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBoxVM --comment Ubuntu --startvm d5db27f0-e3b3-4e18-84a2-2d999edf7504 --no-startvm-errormsgbox user 28790 14102 8 07:11 ? 00:00:58 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBoxVM --comment tumbleweed --startvm 4713d533-f86c-463c-8da8-ee67427a1fed --no-startvm-errormsgbox user 29062 14102 45 07:11 ? 00:05:02 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBoxVM --comment win11 --startvm ce4f8eb9-4894-4373-89fb-dbc625899167 --no-startvm-errormsgbox user 29383 14102 7 07:11 ? 00:00:50 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBoxVM --comment suse15 --startvm 7e154200-c32c-40ac-a01d-1b7632c55598 --no-startvm-errormsgbox user 29680 14102 10 07:11 ? 00:01:09 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBoxVM --comment twkde --startvm 25ebb4a2-a3af-4a44-a3da-88fc2adf06dc --no-startvm-errormsgbox user 29976 14102 14 07:11 ? 00:01:33 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBoxVM --comment fedora --startvm d6da2ee7-920b-413f-8f9c-f944c8a6fa76 --no-startvm-errormsgbox user 30268 14102 13 07:12 ? 00:01:23 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBoxVM --comment gnome --startvm 04aa4c99-1973-469c-8c57-8d44d2628ca6 --no-startvm-errormsgbox user@LLR3:~> I suggest removing and reinstalling virtualbox in Tumbleweed. If you are using the 6.6.0 in Leap - that is not supported. Only in Tumbleweed.