VirtualBox 6.0 for kernel versions > 5.9?
Posted: 4. Dec 2021, 00:33
Software virtualization has been abandoned with VirtualBox 6.1. Therefore VirtualBox 6.1 cannot even run 32 bit guests on computers (cpu's) without hardware virtualization support. This is very unfortunate!
This is the scenario:
* I have a VirtualBox 6.0 with a Windows XP (32 bit) guest on a laptop without hardware virtualization support (CPU is Intel Pentium SU4100).
* This worked fine as long a the kernel version was 5.4. (I use Linux Mint Xfce 20.2.)
* After the kernel was upgraded to 5.11, VirtualBox 6.0 could not run the Windows XP (32 bit) guest anymore.
Is there any chance to get VirtualBox 6.0 running with kernel versions higher than 5.9?
In my research I found out that some specific changes were necessary in VirtualBox 6.1 for supporting kernel versions higher than 5.9. See: VirtualBox ticket #19845
I found out that it is possible to use the sources of VirtualBox 6.1 kernel modules. VBoxConfig is able to successfully build the modules vboxdrv, vboxnetadp and vboxnetflt when using the sources of VirtualBox version 6.1.30. But it fails to build the module vboxpci. Which is not much of a surprise since this module does not exist anymore in VirtualBox 6.1.
I was not able to adapt the sources of the module vboxpci so that it was possible for VBoxConfig to successfully build it for kernel version 5.11.
Has someone in the community been successful in adapting the sources of the VirtualBox 6.0 (6.0.24) vboxpci kernel module for kernel versions higher than 5.9?
I would like to encourage the developer community to adapt the VirtualBox 6.0 vboxpci kernel module for kernel versions higher than 5.9 so that it is possible to run VirtualBox 6.0 on kernel versions higher than 5.9!
This is the scenario:
* I have a VirtualBox 6.0 with a Windows XP (32 bit) guest on a laptop without hardware virtualization support (CPU is Intel Pentium SU4100).
* This worked fine as long a the kernel version was 5.4. (I use Linux Mint Xfce 20.2.)
* After the kernel was upgraded to 5.11, VirtualBox 6.0 could not run the Windows XP (32 bit) guest anymore.
Is there any chance to get VirtualBox 6.0 running with kernel versions higher than 5.9?
In my research I found out that some specific changes were necessary in VirtualBox 6.1 for supporting kernel versions higher than 5.9. See: VirtualBox ticket #19845
I found out that it is possible to use the sources of VirtualBox 6.1 kernel modules. VBoxConfig is able to successfully build the modules vboxdrv, vboxnetadp and vboxnetflt when using the sources of VirtualBox version 6.1.30. But it fails to build the module vboxpci. Which is not much of a surprise since this module does not exist anymore in VirtualBox 6.1.
I was not able to adapt the sources of the module vboxpci so that it was possible for VBoxConfig to successfully build it for kernel version 5.11.
Has someone in the community been successful in adapting the sources of the VirtualBox 6.0 (6.0.24) vboxpci kernel module for kernel versions higher than 5.9?
I would like to encourage the developer community to adapt the VirtualBox 6.0 vboxpci kernel module for kernel versions higher than 5.9 so that it is possible to run VirtualBox 6.0 on kernel versions higher than 5.9!