Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:03:40 +0200 | From | Gerhard Brauer <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.{26.2,27-rc} oops on virtualbox |
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On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 03:28:22PM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: > Hi > > On Sonntag, 31. August 2008, Gerhard Brauer wrote: > [...] > > Ok, some news from archlinux side: > > Our distribution kernel was upgraded from 2.6.26.2 to 2.6.26.3. With > > this upgrade to patchlevel .3 the "early oops"(freeing smp...) has gone. > > My virtual machines boots always fine with this, and i have one > > confirmation from a user about this. > > Sorry, I can't confirm this here on Debian unstable (with virtualbox-ose > 1.6.2 or 1.6.4), are you sure that other configuration options didn't > change between the different kernel versions? Preemption and paravirt can > influence the probability of the early boot panic seriously, without really > avoiding it alltogether.
Only changes between our 2.6.26.2-1 and 2.6.26.3-1 are some minor framebuffer changes in config. If i have a look at the different patchsets between the two versions i don't see something which could be the reason between work and not work.
> Actually I still get the same issues with implanting > ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/archlinux/core/os/i686/kernel26-2.6.26.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz > into the test vm using virtualbox-ose 1.6.4.
Hmm, one user also reports that he have no problem when using a vanilla 2.6.26 as guest kernel. But there must be some reasons when different distributions notice a major problem between 2.6.25 and 2.6.26 with their stock kernels. Although i don't even know if our few reports here are very representavive...
> Regards > Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
Gerhard
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