Get kernel 6.5.0 back 22.04

[Jerry Geis]

On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 10:38 AM Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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Great plan - that is what I am workign on also.   I found that qemu can
create a vmdk file,
I am working on steps how to create and OVA from that.

Jerry
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