Hi, On 6/11/22 01:02, Alexander G. M. Smith wrote: > On 2022-06-08 15:00, Alexander G. M. Smith wrote: >> Ian Laurie wrote on Friday, 3 June 2022 at 11:17 p.m.: >> > Is anyone else seeing crashes and other strange events in VirtualBox >> > 6.1.34 (from RPMFusion) with Linux guests when the Linux host is running >> > Fedora 36 with kernel-5.17.12? >> [...] >> The weird thing is that it works on other CPUs, an AMD Athlon X2 and an >> Intel 10th generation i5-10500H. Just my Ivy Bridge Intel i7-4820K has the >> problem. I did try the kernel boot parameter mitigations=off, in case the >> Spectre or other workarounds were wrong for Ivy Bridge, but it still didn't >> work. > > One more data point. It fails on an Intel i5-750 too. Same broken data > connections and failed checksums. > > My go-to test is to use "dnf clean" followed by "dnf upgrade" running as root > in a console (thus no networking is between keyboard and computer - pipes > often fail). My server snapshot fails to get through the complete dnf > upgrade on kernel 5.17.13, works fine if booting the host with the earlier > kernel 5.17.11 (using the GRUB boot menu to pick the older OS). > > So, should we report this to VirtualBox? They seem like the most appropriate > people. Kernel people would be a possibility? > > Found a relevant bug report: > https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/20976 > > And a forum discussion: > https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=106071 > > Though they don't know that it only happens on certain CPUs (or motherboards > or ?). I'll add some notes about that there.
Note the rpmfusion VirtualBox packages now include this fix: https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/Virtualization/virtualbox/fixes_for_kernel_5.18.patch?expand=1 See: https://koji.rpmfusion.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=22655 Which is supposed to fix this. Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
