[Bug 2073267] Re: Guru meditation on VM start

2024-07-23 Thread David Streicher
For what its worth: I have the same issue with Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS (Desktop). Working kernel (i.e. VM in Virtualbox 6.1 boots): Linux 5.15.0-1061-gke Broken kernel (i.e. VM no longer boots): Linux 5.15.0-1062-gke Workaround: Installed Virtualbox 7 from the Oracle PPA repository and migrated VM wi

[Bug 2073267] Re: Guru meditation on VM start

2024-07-24 Thread David Streicher
@Kevin you need to remove (uninstall) the guest additions from the VM before upgrading to virtualbox 7. (This is true when migrating any VM between major virtualbox versions - even if both work correctly with the same kernel version on the Host). Shortly: 1. Boot Windows Guest VM with Virtualbo

[Bug 2073267] Re: Guru meditation on VM start

2024-07-24 Thread David Streicher
@Kevin you need to remove (uninstall) the guest additions from the VM before upgrading to virtualbox 7. (This is true when migrating any VM between major virtualbox versions - even if both work correctly with the same kernel version on the Host). Shortly: 1. Boot Windows Guest VM with Virtualbo

[Bug 2073267] Re: Guru meditation on VM start

2024-07-25 Thread David Streicher
@Kevin yes. It really depends on the extent of changes between major versions of virtualbox as to whether it will _always_ be required, but it is at least necessary in the 6.1 -> 7 migration case. AFAICT Oracle never released an official VM migration guide with the release of virtualbox 7, but bas

[Bug 2073267] Re: Virtualbox Guru meditation on VM start caused by kernel commit in v6.9-rc4

2024-07-31 Thread David Streicher
@mruffell Perhaps I'm missing something, but the kernel discussion thread you linked specifically ends with "The CVE has now been rejected, thanks for the review!". Surely that means that the Ubuntu team can revert the commit then? (unless you are of the opinion that the security vulnerability the

[Bug 2073267] Re: Virtualbox Guru meditation on VM start caused by kernel commit in v6.9-rc4

2024-08-01 Thread David Streicher
@kees Thanks for jumping on this thread! From a technical perspective I agree with you, but I would reason that it's not really a change one would want end-users of the Ubuntu LTS kernel to implement. It comes back to the reasoning mentioned by @Andy in #70 and @Gustav in #73: a kernel update on