Even if the bug in Virtualbox is fixed, the fact that a bug in a single application can cause the whole OS to reboot is a very critical bug in the OS itself, and that needs to be fixed as well
** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1736116 [SRU] Host with kernel 4.13 freezes when starting a VM with VirtualBox -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1004597 Title: Sudden hard reset (reboot) caused by VirtualBox To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1004597/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs