Get kernel 6.5.0 back 22.04

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 8:13 AM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a way to get back to kernel 6.5.0.
> I am fully patched 22.04 and 6.5.0 kernel is not installed any more - moved to 6.8.0
>
> I need to drop back as VMWARE will not re-compile.
> (anyone know a TRICK to get vmware to re-compile)
> I can seem to find in the "craziness" that is VMWARE the workstation 17 pro download.  What a mess they have created.

I found this to be a constant source of problems for VirtualBox -- VB
would not build on updated kernels. I had to wait weeks for Oracle to
release an update. In the meantime, the VB service would fail to start
and break the video subsystem.

For a while I was installing two kernels: linux-image-generic and
linux-image-generic-hwe-22.04. I would switch between them as VB
broke. Then one day both were broke.

You might consider changing to KVM+QEMU+libvirt. Once I switched I no
longer had the problems. That's because the kernel folks also maintain
the VM gear.

Jeff