From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A helping hand with virtual machines, please.
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:21:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111123132123.544dcbb4@rohan.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111123091707.GB2423@nicolas-desktop>
On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:17:07 +0100
Nicolas Sebrecht <nsebrecht@piing.fr> wrote:
> The 22/11/11, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> > I use virtualbox and it's the one I recommend.
> >
> > The kernel modules are no better and no worse than any other
> > out-of-tree modules.
>
> You're wrong. Using the virtualbox module means you turn the kernel to
> "tained crap" because of the number of problems it causes, including
> random memory curruption.
>
Care to back that up with something resembling evidence?
EVERY out-of-tree module will taint the kernel. As to whether it
deserves the "crap" moniker is a matter of opinion
--
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-23 11:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-22 19:20 [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please Alan Mackenzie
2011-11-22 19:38 ` Mark Knecht
2011-11-22 19:43 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-22 20:29 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-22 23:06 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-23 12:57 ` J. Roeleveld
2011-11-23 13:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-23 13:54 ` Marc Joliet
2011-11-23 13:59 ` J. Roeleveld
2011-11-23 14:14 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-11-23 9:17 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2011-11-23 11:21 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2011-11-23 11:45 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2011-11-23 12:20 ` Joseph Davis
2011-11-23 12:59 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2011-11-23 13:17 ` J. Roeleveld
2011-11-23 13:57 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2011-11-23 13:51 ` Mark Knecht
2011-11-23 15:09 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-23 15:27 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-22 22:47 ` [gentoo-user] " William Kenworthy
2011-11-23 13:01 ` J. Roeleveld
2011-11-23 15:12 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-23 15:29 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-23 15:39 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-22 20:14 ` Felix Kuperjans
2011-11-22 21:42 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-22 22:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-11-22 23:14 ` Felix Kuperjans
2011-11-22 23:01 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-11-22 20:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Albert W. Hopkins
2011-11-22 21:14 ` kashani
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