[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#497505: virtualbox-ose doesn't work with linux 2.6.26

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

Hi

Just as a status update, Ubuntu has added a patch[1], disabling interrupts 
in the critical boot up path, to their kernel today, which avoids this 
issue from triggering - and after initial testing, it seems to succeed.

On the other hand, looking at the VirtualBox bug tracker[2], it seems to 
have been identified as a real bug in VirtualBox' recompiler (which is 
supposed to have been fixed in VirtualBox 2.0.2).

Given the circumstances that this patch to the kernel only seems to paper
around the real issue, I do not recommend to add it to Debian's kernel 
though.

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann

[1]	http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-intrepid.git;a=commitdiff;h=00d6c877bc34ff6e2705385764f6e7426cd362a8
[2]	http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1875#comment:7
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