I was just checking to see what the latest release was for VirtualBox on the Oracle site only to find that for Linux it is 5.0.24 but Tumbleweed is still shipping 5.0.18. As I thought TW was supposed to have the latest versions on it I am wondering why it is apparently so far behind?
Stuart
The Update to 5.0.24 on Virtualbox was yesterday and if you wish to have it up to date, install it from Oracle.
OK so why did we not see 20 and 22 on TW, that means now 24 is out TW is 3 levels down. I would have expected updates to at least 20 and perhaps 22 by now since 24 is so new.
Stuart
On Thu 30 Jun 2016 07:36:02 PM CDT, broadstairs wrote:
OK so why did we not see 20 and 22 on TW, that means now 24 is out TW is
3 levels down. I would have expected updates to at least 20 and perhaps
22 by now since 24 is so new.
Stuart
Hi
Since it seems so important to you, why not offer to help the
maintainer (Mr Larry Finger and others) push the update. I would
suspect that the modules need patching or kernel and bug fixes
implemented and tested before it’s released, it’s not just plop and
build for just Tumbleweed, there are all the supported release to
maintain as well.
Then I’m sure we all have lives outside of computers and operating
systems, so some things can/do/will fall behind at times 
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This was not intended to be a criticism but merely a request for an explanation, I wondered if there was primarily a technical reason. I do understand that people have lives and in general do these things as and when they can. I am puzzled that, from what I read on the forum, with TW there seem to be issues with installing from the Oracle site, something which 99.9% of the time when I used other distros worked perfectly well. I am not a heavy VB user BTW but I do try to keep up to date on most things. I will have a play and see how well or otherwise it goes using the Oracle download.
Stuart
TW is well ahead in kernel versions of other distros Sometimes stuff just does not work.
Hi
Not at all taken as criticism, just highlighting the constraints that are, at times hidden
If you keep an eye on the development mailing list;
https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/
For example;
You will see that issues are worked on, just takes time esp if they have to backport fixes etc…
One of the reasons I switched to using KVM…
Please be aware of this post: <Lastest Virtual Box version clinets freeze after a few minutes. - Virtualization - openSUSE Forums;
Lastest Virtual Box version clinets freeze after a few minutes.
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Virtual Box : This Version works fine and is the revision downgraded to.
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