2016-08-05 18:48 GMT+02:00 Richard Brown:
Top posting because this is your obligatory reminder that a reliance of 3rd party kernel drivers is not recommended for Tumbleweed users
I've considered a long time whether to comment this because this half an off-topic. At the end I decided express my support for Larry. Excuses for this spam to people helping to solve the real problems here.
This is clearly documented on the Tumbleweed wiki - https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed
True if you want to use OpenSUSE in a student laboratory. Misleading in the real world. This is a typical viewpoint of a support department - We told you, so we'll never support you.
The reason for this recommendation is precisely because of issues such as these - they happen and will continue to happen as long as the 3rd parties in question (Nvidia and Oracle/VirtualBox) do not keep up with the pace of Kernel development
Now I've said 'We told you so', I do hope this thread finds suitable workarounds for users who are affected, and if not, I'd strongly encourage the use of nouveau Nvidia drivers instead of the proprietary drivers, and the use of KVM instead of Virtualbox.
Especially organizations have internal policies how to distribute images to their members. You often can't change this, because there are reasons beyond your personal view (multi-platform, usability). The support departments I got in touch with formerly distributed VMWare and now VirtualBox images (Windows and SLES as guests). I can immediately use them in Tumbleweed, and to be honest, VirtualBox for Tumbleweed made by Larry has never disappointed me. the emulation of all OS provides was running well and performantly, including graphics and sound. --> Virtualbox is a great standalone virtualization solution, immediately usable and intuitive, even without a manual. Regarding the sidekick to NVidia - it seems you haven't been a long-term NVidia graphics user. I still don't consider performance, just the wish not to crash after minutes or hours of work. --> NVidia proprietary drivers do not optimally integrate with the kernel and Xorg, but they don't hang up or crash in most cases. The "nouveau" driver is a neverending construction area introducing breaking code changes to each new kernel mainline, otherwise I'd never use the proprietary one. Thumbs up to Larry and all maintainers. This time especially to those delivering packages with a different license than GPL :-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org