[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#783142: VMs fail to start on Broadwell CPUs

Moritz Mühlenhoff jmm at inutil.org
Wed Apr 22 19:52:45 UTC 2015


On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 09:48:01PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Package: virtualbox
> Version: 4.3.18-dfsg-3
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi,
> virtualbox doesn't work on Broadwell CPUs; all VMs fail to start no
> matter what the user configures in the VM settings.
> 
> This was reported upstream at https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13820
> 
> I verified that the patch by Frank works on my Thinkpad X250 with such
> a CPU. I'm attaching a suitable Debian diff.
> 
> Please fix this for the jessie 8.1 point release, Broadwell CPUs will
> become increasingly popular and Vbox is completely broken on them.

Now really attached.

Cheers,
        Moritz
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