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   Paul to All   
   Re: Update to Mint 22.2 Cinnamon is avai   
   10 Sep 25 23:01:08   
   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 9/10/2025 9:30 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:14:00 +0100, pinnerite wrote:   
   >   
   >> As there it is incompatible with VirtiualBox, I will stick with 22.1   
   >> until that is resolved.   
   >   
   > I wonder how a distro can be incompatible with a VM hypervisor? I   
   > thought the whole point of virtualization is that the guest OS cannot   
   > tell the difference between real and virtual hardware.   
   >   
      
   If you want "religion", stick with QEMU-KVM.   
      
   Commercial products, screw around with stuff. For example, there   
   are modules added to the host, via DKMS (a given version of VirtualBox   
   then, could have a "range of acceptable kernels" from a DKMS perspective).   
      
   It's the same with "virtualbox-additions" added to a Guest.   
   Driver level additions for various convenience features.   
      
   There was a complaint by VirtualBox once that "Microsoft changed the   
   number of parameters on some kernel call" requiring an emergency patch.   
   There is no way for us to imagine or figure out, exactly what they have   
   been messing with in the innards of the machine.   
      
      Paul   
      
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