Issues with Ubuntu 23.10 and Linux 6.5
Posted: 17. Oct 2023, 00:42
There are a growing number of incompatibilities between Linux and Virtualbox:
- On the install of the Ubuntu 23.10 VM (Linux 6.5) the network did not work. Probably the first time it happens to me in say 10 years. Host OS is Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with Virtualbox 7.0.10 and Linux 6.2. After installation the Ubuntu 23.10 network started working again.
- A screen freeze happens to me randomly on many VMs (Linux and Windows). Without 3D it freezes less frequently.
- Also here the VM screen did freeze during first boot and only "power-off" helped. The VBoxGuestAdditions_7.0.11-159406 is somewhat better, but not good yet, because:
- After a reboot, the VM screen is partly garbled for say 2 seconds and afterwards it is readable again for 5 seconds and that process repeats.
I use Virtualbox since 2009 (the times of SUN Microsystems) and I have around ~70 Virtualbox VMs from Windows 1.04 to Windows 11 and Ubuntu 4.10 till Ubuntu 23.10.
Linux 6.5 has been released 27 August 2023, by now Oracle should have added support for that Linux release, Oracle is falling too far behind and I have the feeling the original high quality is slowly descreasing with each new Linux release.
- On the install of the Ubuntu 23.10 VM (Linux 6.5) the network did not work. Probably the first time it happens to me in say 10 years. Host OS is Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with Virtualbox 7.0.10 and Linux 6.2. After installation the Ubuntu 23.10 network started working again.
- A screen freeze happens to me randomly on many VMs (Linux and Windows). Without 3D it freezes less frequently.
- Also here the VM screen did freeze during first boot and only "power-off" helped. The VBoxGuestAdditions_7.0.11-159406 is somewhat better, but not good yet, because:
- After a reboot, the VM screen is partly garbled for say 2 seconds and afterwards it is readable again for 5 seconds and that process repeats.
I use Virtualbox since 2009 (the times of SUN Microsystems) and I have around ~70 Virtualbox VMs from Windows 1.04 to Windows 11 and Ubuntu 4.10 till Ubuntu 23.10.
Linux 6.5 has been released 27 August 2023, by now Oracle should have added support for that Linux release, Oracle is falling too far behind and I have the feeling the original high quality is slowly descreasing with each new Linux release.