Hello,
I have vbox and kernel from Kernel:/stable:/Backport repo
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable:/Backport/standard/
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable:/Backport:/KMP/standard/
# zypper -vv se -is | egrep 'kernel(|-kmp)$'
i+ | kernel-default | package |
6.10.10-lp155.2.1.gfc3eac9 | x86_64 | kernel
i | kernel-default-devel | package |
6.10.10-lp155.2.1.gfc3eac9 | x86_64 | kernel
i+ | kernel-devel | package |
6.10.10-lp155.2.1.gfc3eac9 | noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-all | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-amdgpu | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-ath10k | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-ath11k | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-ath12k | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-atheros | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-bluetooth | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-bnx2 | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-brcm | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-chelsio | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-dpaa2 | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-i915 | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-intel | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-iwlwifi | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-liquidio | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-marvell | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-media | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-mediatek | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-mellanox | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-mwifiex | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-network | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-nfp | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-nvidia | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-platform | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-prestera | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-qcom | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-qlogic | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-radeon | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-realtek | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-serial | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-sound | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-ti | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-ueagle | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-firmware-usb-network | package | 20240912-lp155.2.1
| noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-macros | package |
6.10.10-lp155.2.1.gfc3eac9 | noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-source | package |
6.10.10-lp155.2.1.gfc3eac9 | noarch | kernel
i+ | kernel-syms | package |
6.10.10-lp155.2.1.gfc3eac9 | x86_64 | kernel
i+ | python3-virtualbox | package | 7.0.20-lp155.2.24
| x86_64 | kernel-kmp
i+ | virtualbox | package | 7.0.20-lp155.2.24
| x86_64 | kernel-kmp
i+ | virtualbox-devel | package | 7.0.20-lp155.2.24
| x86_64 | kernel-kmp
i+ | virtualbox-host-source | package | 7.0.20-lp155.2.24
| noarch | kernel-kmp
i+ | virtualbox-kmp-default | package |
7.0.20_k6.10.10_lp155.2.gfc3eac9-lp155.2.16 | x86_64 | kernel-kmp
i+ | virtualbox-qt | package | 7.0.20-lp155.2.24
| x86_64 | kernel-kmp
With following memory conditions
# free -m
total used free shared buff/cache
available
Mem: 31464 7981 367 1836 25417
23482
Swap: 32767 171 32596
I was unable to start a vbox VM with 8GB memory .. Issue is exactly same as
here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=298056 .. after
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
I was able to start a VBOX VM and following was a memory usage minute after
starting VM
# free -m
total used free shared buff/cache
available
Mem: 31464 16524 14208 1827 2959
14939
Swap: 32767 171 32596
This seems to me like some bug with VBox's memory allocation (? and/or possibly
kernel 6.10) and this behaviour should not happen ..
Workaround: force to drop caches before starting VBox's VM
<------- additional info:
Environment: I have a leap 15.6 with no special settings running on laptop with
32GBs memory .. I have added two Kernel: repos above and I use Kernel from
there because otherwise I have a lot of i915 deathscreams in dmesg and possibly
X lockups and freezes due to relatively new hardware
# lspci -nn |grep -Ei 'VGA|DISPLAY'
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Raptor Lake-P [Iris
Xe Graphics] [8086:a7a1] (rev 04)
# grep Intel /proc/cpuinfo |tail -1
model name : 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1365U
Thank you very much for your support !!
Hail Geeko !!
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