On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 7:46 AM, Ralf <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Moved a few days ago from Upstream Vendor to SL6.
> A little contribution regarding the kernel version present in the SL
> testing repo:
>
> - GNU Linux Kernel 2.6.32-642.el6.x86_64 won't compile latest
> "virtualbox 5.0.20 r106931" modules issued from Oracle's VirtualBox
> repo ;
>
> - whereas latest production kernel version SL6.7,
> 2.6.32-573.26.1.el6.x86_64, does it, supposing one modifies the release
> variables to catch back the 6.5 tree...
>
> Not sure anyone is currently using vbox nor using testing SL, but if
> anyone is, insmod the vbox modules from SL6.7 to a native testing
> install, could at least do the job...
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf

There are a number of not-necessarily-compatible-with-Virtualbox
kernels in the recent RHEL 6.8 release, which I expect to be in an SL
6.8 release soon. Those may be helpful.

I'm not sure what "modifying the release veriable" means?