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Hello,

I was wondering, is the Guest OS list (virtualbox dot org/wiki/Guest_OSes) up to date? I was just asking because I don't see any 3.0 kernels there and Fedora is about to drop support for 15. Don't 16 and 17 use the 3.0 kernel?

Wiki is not up to date but I can say for sure that the newer versions of VirtualBox do support the 3.* kernels. and Fedora 15,16, & 17 all work as well.

Fedora 15 went End of Life on June 26. Building guest additions for Fedora Rawhide (AKA F18) which is currently using the 3.5 kernel does not work with VirtualBox 4.1.18 without using the workaround in https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10709 , but is expected to work in the next VB release (but Rawhide is about to move to a 3.6 RC kernel, so that's not certain). F17 and below work fine as guests.

I don't think that 3.6 will be any different in regards to the bug, which was a snippet of code being removed from the Linux kernel which caused this issue.

Perryg wrote:I don't think that 3.6 will be any different in regards to the bug, which was a snippet of code being removed from the Linux kernel which caused this issue.

I wasn't thinking of that specific bug, just that new bugs causing problems with building guest additions are very possible with any major kernel update (a new bug could appear before the next release fixes the old bug).

And the world could end on 12-20-2012.

Really no ones knows the future. If you want to have the latest and greatest and test pre-alpha OSes you need to build from SVN. They typically hold off adding anything to the release tree until at least beta stage and sometimes later if they know there might be an issue. All in an attempt to keep down regressions.