Hardware Enablement Stack notice?

[Jim Byrnes]

On 08/20/2016 02:39 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>>>> I asked about VBox because every time it get an update to VBox it
>>>>> mentions compiling the kernel.
>
> Hi,
>
> not the kernel will be rebuild, just the vbox host related modules
> vboxdrv.ko, vboxnetadp.ko, vboxnetflt.ko and vboxpci.ko will be
> rebuild, to fit to the kernel. This usually is required, if either the
> kernel version, or the vbox version changes. It's possible that it
> can't be done for some combinations of kernel version and vbox version,
> but most likely it works for relatively current kernel version and
> relatively current vbox version combinations.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
>

OK, thanks. That gives me some encouragement. I'll do a backup and let 
the update run.

Thanks,  Jim