Has anyone had the issue, when they own mac hardware, that when they install sound drivers it causes kernel instability, until you upgrade the kernel beyond the LTS recommended, then when installing VBox, due to OS instability with the headers, you need to downgrade the kernel to LTS, causing sound driver instability?
Frankly I have no idea what you are talking about.
In my experience there is no relationship between the kernel and audio drivers of a host to that of a virtual machine running on that host, unless you’re doing some funky audio passthrough, but I can’t think of a way to achieve that unless you’re futzing with building your own drivers.
As far as “mac hardware”, I’m assuming that you’re talking about Intel based Apple hardware, since there’s extremely limited support for Apple Silicon (M1 and M2 with incomplete peripheral support through Asahi Linux) and AFAIK, there is no LTS support at all at this time.
honestly understandable, I only talked about the kernel since in order to compile and install the audio drivers I had to use kernel version 16.2, whereas I was using 8.1, and although I know there isn’t LTS, I was using the “ubuntu LTS” distro