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

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hi Frank,

>Hi all,


>please be aware that the patch mentioned below by Gianfranco is not sufficient
>for Linux >= 3.19. The complete patch can be found here:
>
>  https://www.virtualbox.org/attachment/ticket/13961/diff_smap_4
>
>See https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13961#comment:18 for the explanation.


you are completely right, *but* jessie is shipped with kernel 3.16, if people want kernel 3.19 they need to use it from experimental (or build from source)

virtualbox in experimental already has the full patch you mentioned above

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-virtualbox/virtualbox.git/commit/?id=8345a3bfb01591402639a7ddab22e52a0d8ce471


So I presume in order to have a minimum diff for the jessie post release update we can use the minimal patch, and use backport/experimental for people who want to try newer kernels.

I tried to apply manually the patch on 4.3.18  but it doesn't apply cleanly.

cheers,

G.