[opensuse] Leap 15.0 Midstream Major Ver. Update from Vbox 5.x to 6.x drivers makes 5.x headless installs S L O W?
All, Why has openSUSE jumped major version in the virtualbox kernel drivers mid-release while the 5.28 branch continues to be supported through 2020. The update tonight was from: from: virtualbox-guest-kmp-default-5.2.24_k4.12.14_lp150.12.61-lp150.4.33.1.x86_64.rpm to virtualbox-guest-kmp-default-6.0.10_k4.12.14_lp150.12.67-lp150.4.36.1.x86_64.rpm This causes horrific slowness for those servers serving headless clients from the supported 5X branch of vbox. Most things work, but window moves and directory listing are much slower on Linux guests, and almost unusable on windows guests. On windows guests it can take more than 60 sec just to display a 300 file listing with 'dir'. I thought these major version jumps were NOT supposed to happen mid-release -- for just this very reason. What gives?? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 7/30/19 7:10 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
All,
Why has openSUSE jumped major version in the virtualbox kernel drivers mid-release while the 5.28 branch continues to be supported through 2020. The update tonight was from:
from:
virtualbox-guest-kmp-default-5.2.24_k4.12.14_lp150.12.61-lp150.4.33.1.x86_64.rpm
to
virtualbox-guest-kmp-default-6.0.10_k4.12.14_lp150.12.67-lp150.4.36.1.x86_64.rpm
This causes horrific slowness for those servers serving headless clients from the supported 5X branch of vbox. Most things work, but window moves and directory listing are much slower on Linux guests, and almost unusable on windows guests.
On windows guests it can take more than 60 sec just to display a 300 file listing with 'dir'. I thought these major version jumps were NOT supposed to happen mid-release -- for just this very reason. What gives??
You will have to ask the maintainer, for packages that don't have a lot of other dependencies such as Virtual Box, the maintainer has more discretion, maybe the 6.0 guest drivers are needed if you are using 6.0 as a host which some people may want to do. Maybe there are other reasons, but you'll need to ask the maintainer rather then the people here. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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