After upgrading to the new kernel and rebooting and just locking the virtualbox* packages, it still works fine. [sh @ balrog-tw-dev] ~ 24 % sudo zypper locks # | Name | Type | Repository --+------------------------+---------+----------- 1 | virtualbox-guest* | package | (any) 2 | virtualbox-kmp-default | package | (any) [sh @ balrog-tw-dev] ~ 25 % sudo zypper dup Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Warning: You are about to do a distribution upgrade with all enabled repositories. Make sure these repositories are compatible before you continue. See 'man zypper' for more information about this command. Computing distribution upgrade... The following 5 items are locked and will not be changed by any action: Available: virtualbox-guest-desktop-icons virtualbox-guest-source Installed: virtualbox-guest-tools virtualbox-guest-x11 virtualbox-kmp-default Nothing to do.