@LocutusOfBorg, first of all, thank you very much for your continuous effort in maintaining VirtualBox.
After you mentioned that "upstream vbox ships a custom qt version", I asked about it in #vbox, and they said: > [...] qt5 was pretty much unusable rubbish until 5.5/5.6. and then they > decided to change the license for 5.7, which means that going there requires > review by Oracle legal. > [...] the "ship library" approach is what we use for the ubuntu LTS packages > on virtualbox.org - slap a number of qt5.6 libs into the vbox package. which > would cause seizures for a debian/ubuntu packager :P And, talking about this particular issue, > [...] to be accurate: we don't have the faintest idea why things blow up. So unless Debian/Ubuntu somehow make an exception and allow us to ship Qt 5.6 in parallel with other Qt 5.x versions, either bundled with apps that need it, or as a separate package... ...getting vbox 5.2.x to Ubuntu 16.04 isn't an easy task. Thanks again! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1736116 Title: Host with kernel 4.13 freezes when starting a VM with VirtualBox To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/1736116/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
