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List:       opensuse-factory
Subject:    Re: VirtualBox problems with kernel 5.13
From:       Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj () urpla ! net>
Date:       2021-07-19 17:01:13
Message-ID: 5500708.ioYXQQI6uX () xrated
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Am Montag, 19. Juli 2021, 00:01:13 CEST schrieb Larry Finger:
> On 7/18/21 4:03 PM, Mailings wrote:
> > Hi Larry
> > 
> > I much appreciate the effort you spend in fixing Oracle' s shortcomings /
> > sluggishness!!!!
> > Like others here on the list I can't really change to alternatives. (Read:
> > I don't dare potentially breaking many things that I've tweaked into the
> > config of VB - and I don't even remember all of the little tweaks
> > accumulated over the years :-) )

I comes along nicely, if you need to to supply a home for bitten apples, and 
still handles hibernation better/nicer that libvirt.

I'm hibernating my running VMs before backing them up for consistency reasons, 
and for libvirt, this was a major undertaking. It boiled down to building 
libvirt/qemu from Factory for Leap, and still needs some fiddling with 
reattaching usb devices after hibernation. 
 
> > For others holding back an update due to this issue:
> > The "few days for the fix to propagate through OBS" don't seem over yet
> > -TW
> > 20210716 still suffers from it.
> > So I've resorted to apply the kernel parameter
> > "randomize_kstack_offset=off" which indeed does the trick!
> 
> It will take a while to propagate, but there are no more review hurdles.

Thank you, Larry, for providing the fix. Much appreciated.

I hereby confirm, that VB with the randomize stack fix applied is doing fine 
again with 5.13.2 without any kernel command line dances..

Best,
Pete
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