Change in VirtualBox behavior (2024-11-27)

[ben79 (Ben Bullard)]

Hello,

• OpenMandriva Lx version:

Cooker & ROME

• Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…):

ALL

• Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant):

It is now necessary to remove kernel modules using root password to start VirtualBox. On my laptop with AMD hardware it works like this:

1. Enter root password to remove kvm_amd using command /usr/bin/rmmod
   

   

2. Enter root password to remove kvm using command /usr/bin/rmmod
   

   

VirtualBox opens and runs as normal

Example of running VirtualMachine in VirtualBox

• Relevant informations (hardware involved, software version, logs or output…):

If you have Intel hardware instead of AMD it will instead remove kvm_intel in the first step.

Edit: As far as I know the only thing that uses these kernel modules is virtualization software. So unless you are also using Qemu or Gnome Boxes at the same time as using VirtualBox I do not think this is likely to affect anything. There may be some users that need kvm modules for something else, not sure about that.