Re: 2.6.{26.2,27-rc} oops on virtualbox

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Sep 22 2008 - 05:51:50 EST



* Gerhard Brauer <gerhard.brauer@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Am Sonntag, den 31.08.2008, 11:09 -0300 schrieb Luiz Fernando N.
> Capitulino:
>
> > Mandriva kernel was 2.6.26.3 based at the time I started testing
> > this and all my last tests have been done on 2.6.27-rc4. I think it's
> > very unusual to have a change in a -stable kernel not present in the
> > latest -rc.
>
> I was away the last days, but i notice that the virtualbox update to
> 2.0.2 solve all problems i mentioned. We also have same responses from
> other arch users.
> I never saw the "early boot oops" (this have had gone still with our
> kernel update, mystical....). But also the "heavy IO oops" has gone. So
> it was a virtualbox problem, they fixed it in:
> http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1875
>
> So from my side this is solved.

great - the VirtualBox recompiler didnt notice the paravirt code
modification sequence. Any Linux kernel side NOP issue (which caused
that early oops) should be solved in 2.6.27-rc7 as well.

so the combo of 2.0.2 and later VirtualBox plus v2.6.27-rc7 and later
should have no known bugs.

Ingo
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