On 6/12/22 00:58, Hans de Goede wrote:
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/fi...
See:
https://koji.rpmfusion.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=22655
Which is supposed to fix this.
Regards,
Hans
I'm currently running this version, with the 5.18 fixes, but it's not
working with kernels 5.17.12/13 or 14. A person reporting success with
5.18.3 reported not having problems with the 5.17 kernels, so maybe
there are multiple issues (has been suggested it may be CPU/chipset
related). I have not yet tried it on 5.18 but I certainly will today.
Ian