I can confirm that the virtual machines start again with this fix!

Thank you very much!

Volker

On Donnerstag, 12. Juli 2018 10:52:59 CEST Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> >VMMR0.r0 has been built (presumably due to the recent binutils upgrades in 
> >unstable) with the new PLT32 relocation type, which the virtualbox ELF 
> >relocation >code cannot handle at the moment. Having a quick glance at .text 
> >and .rela.text of VMMR0.r0, it seems to me that PC32 and PLT32 can be 
> >handled identically, >similar to what commit b21ebf2fb4cd of the Linux 
> >kernel did?
> 
> 
> I really liked the analysis, the linux commit and the binutils stuff, I 
> crafted a patch based on this comment, and uploaded in unstable
> 
> If anybody wants to test the "fix", please grab the deb files from there
> http://debomatic-amd64.debian.net/distribution#unstable/virtualbox/5.2.14-dfsg-2/buildlog
> 
> 
> or wait some hours for the package to appear on unstable repositories/mirrors.
> 
> I'm not sure if this causes regressions or whatever else, the assumption 
> "they might behave in the same way" might not apply as it did in the kernel,
> even if my basic tests confirmed the VM to start.
> 
> Use at your own risk, like everything that comes from unstable, the urgency 
> is set to low, so I presume we will have 10 days of people testing this before
> going in buster.
> 
> thanks you all, I also submitted the patch to upstream mail list and irc for 
> review
> 
> G.
> 
> 

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