Re: [vbox-dev] VM failure when 5-level page tables are enabled

2021-07-14 Thread Larry Finger
On 7/14/21 4:12 PM, Klaus Espenlaub wrote: patch to deal with CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT see the ticket. So far we have no clear reports of anyone running into actual 5-level page table issues. None of the available logs are for hardware which has the feature. There could be an (un

Re: [vbox-dev] [External] : Re: The status of VirtualBox

2021-07-14 Thread Klaus Espenlaub
Hi Dustin, On 2021-07-12 21:14, Dustin Marquess wrote: On a side note, is there a reason that there hasn't been any development snapshots @ https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds

Re: [vbox-dev] VM failure when 5-level page tables are enabled

2021-07-14 Thread Klaus Espenlaub
patch to deal with CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT see the ticket. So far we have no clear reports of anyone running into actual 5-level page table issues. None of the available logs are for hardware which has the feature. There could be an (unrelated) issue, because we couldn't yet tes

Re: [vbox-dev] Compiling Virtualbox for just a single VM

2021-07-14 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Hi Jim, you are very correct and I have also been investigating those as well. Was mostly trying to get a feel for what may, or may, not be possible and practical from the VirtualBox perspective. Currently, Bhyve is looking very promising as well since it has a very small code base and might be

Re: [vbox-dev] Compiling Virtualbox for just a single VM

2021-07-14 Thread Jim Klimov
On July 12, 2021 7:16:45 PM UTC, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: >Thanks for your response on this, Klaus as it is truly appreciated. > >The goal was to see if it would be possible, and reasonable, to try and >get >VirtualBox to be the VMM for a new hypervisor designed to have a small >footprint to offer