On Thursday, 27 April 2017 13:23:30 ACST L A Walsh wrote:
On any rolling release, VBox is a pain.
--- Depends on how often you update or whether dkms is provided.
It's forever breaking on my gentoo (except that I haven't updated it in ages because I'm expecting loads of grief when I do :-)
--- That's what dkms was invented for. It's on many distros, but not opensuse, because opensuse doesn't support users recompiling or updating their kernel. Suse _could_ facilitate this with a util similar to wicked, that toggles needed modules in a kernel-config file 'on' (instead of included as modules), rebuilding and reinstalling a local-HW specific version of the SuSE kernel that would boot without the need for an initrd.
I have been using dkms on openSuSe since 13.0 (now running Tumbleweed) and it works fine! I've not had to rebuild vbox modules since I installed and configured it. (Mostly) the same with Nvidia drivers, although certain X/KDE updates can (do) break the drivers and require a re-install. Vbox, however, "Just Works (TM)" with dkms installed and properly configured. There are instructions on the web for setting up vbox with dkms, but I only had to do it once and I can't remember the page I got the info from. -- ============================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ============================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org