[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#595050: Warning about ext4 kernel bug

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Tue Aug 31 17:33:00 UTC 2010


Package: virtualbox-ose
Version: 3.2.6-dfsg-2
Severity: important

This warning needs to be removed:

| The virtual machine execution may run into an error condition as
| described below. We suggest that you take an appropriate action to
| avert the error.
| 
| The host I/O cache for at least one controller is disabled and the
| medium '/home/fw/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/Disk.vdi' for this VM is
| located on an ext4 partition. There is a known Linux kernel bug which
| can lead to the corruption of the virtual disk image under these
| conditions.
| 
| Either enable the host I/O cache permanently in the VM settings or put
| the disk image and the snapshot folder onto a different file system.
| The host I/O cache will now be enabled for this medium.

Either it the warning is bogus, or the kernel (or Virtualbox needs to
be fixed).





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