I hit a snag during this upgrade that might help others. The kernel package threw an error during installation, and after rebooting I landed in a kernel panic. The panic message complained about being unable to read sector 0 (or something similar), which made the system unbootable under the new kern…

[image] Dan Tripp: I should never need to worry about this in future - since I no longer use VirtualBox - just QEMU/KVM and Virt-Manager… i.e. “kvm” is part of the Linux kernel… I am in the same boat. I could not master Vbox’s menus. For a Linux user it is quite counter intuitive. Now we h…

I prefer qemu/kvm (virt-manger)- I find myself using it more often than virtualbox- but they both have pros and cons. My use of virtual machines are mainly just for fun and learning.

Gnome Boxes doesn’t seem to have any of these problems.

I am in the same boat. I could not master Vbox’s menus. For a Linux user it is quite counter intuitive. Now we hear it has multiple versions, configured differently. I work since 2016 with VirtualBox because my laptop had installed with Windows 10 and in that days I was very rust with Linux. So…

Here is what Copilot said about the kernel / virtualbox issue. Here’s the good news, Pat: Your system isn’t broken — VirtualBox DKMS is. And that’s exactly why the new kernel won’t finish installing and why you got the “can’t find sector zero” boot failure when trying to use it. Let’s break this…

[image] daniel.m.tripp: It’s a shame VirtualBox doesn’t use KVM instead of implementing its own sort of hypervisor… That could also be an advantage when running on Windows. There may be more common code than trying to run some sort of KVM on Windows.

[image] berninghausen: Gnome Boxes I’ve used Gnome Boxes and I do like it, but I can’t use both at the same time. VirtualBox seems to fit my use case better most of the time, so I use it more often.

[image] pdecker: There may be more common code than trying to run some sort of KVM on Windows. I think the exact same. [image] pdecker: I’ve used Gnome Boxes Gnome Boxes is just another GUI on top of KVM/Qemu, Virtmanager is a more sophisticated implementation. Virtualbox on the othe…

I haven’t been able to find a definite answer, but the best I can tell VirtualBox 7.2 fixed the kvm sharing problems only for kernels 6.16 & newer. One post I found said they were going to fix it for 6.12 forward, but I cannot find any confirmation that they did. So- kernels 6.12-6.15 still migh…

[image] pdecker: Given your setup — Ubuntu 24.04, NVIDIA, VirtualBox, Does anyone know if this problem extends beyond Ubuntu?

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