[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#788016: virtualbox-dkms: Host crashes with general protection fault on image startup

[Arnout Engelen]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:14 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs at researchut.com>
wrote:

> On Monday 08 June 2015 02:32 AM, Arnout Engelen wrote:
> > When booting a vagrant machine and running the "4.0.0-1-amd64 #1 Debian
> > 4.0.2-1" kernel booted with Xen support, the host machine immediately
> crashes
> > with the general protection fault detailed below.
> >
> > When the machine is booted with the same kernel but without Xen support,
> the
> > image comes up fine.
>
> Is VBox supported with Xen active as a hypervisor ?
>
> I doubt that. Because even on regular kernel, if KVM is active, VBox
> will complain.
> At any given time, only 1 hypervisor is allowed to be active and serve.
>

I can certainly imagine that.

Whatever the case, it should never crash the host machine, though.


Arnout
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