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. Frank On Thursday 23 April 2015 07:43:17 Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hi, patch applied on jessie branch > > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-virtualbox/virtualbox.git/commit/?h=jessi > e > > > experimental should already be fine. > > thanks! > > cheers, > > G. > > > Il Mercoledì 22 Aprile 2015 22:12, Moritz Mühlenhoff <j...@inutil.org> ha > scritto: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-virtualbox-devel mailing list > pkg-virtualbox-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-virtualbox-devel -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert | Software Development Director, VirtualBox ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Werkstr. 24 | 71384 Weinstadt, Germany ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Hauptverwaltung: Riesstraße 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org