Not really an issue, but I noticed that after installing the new towo kernel there was no grub entry for the previous kernel. Is that resultant from installing with smxi? Or is it by VastOne design? Just curious...
^False alarm. Turns out that if you scroll down to the second grub menu option, named "Advanced Options", all your installed kernels await you in a sub-menu. So it's a feature!
After continued use of the 3.8 towo kernel, I have encountered no issues except...
VirtualBox guest additions refuse to compile under the 3.8 kernel. Assuming next release of guest additions will address that. So until then, if you are running as a Vbox guest, you might want to remain on 3.7 kernel.