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<font face="Verdana">Stone throwing seems to be the way of things
these days. Some figure if they throw enough they will actually
hit an issue. I would be more interested in see the actual
tickets myself and seeing what the problem really is, but here
again this was not given so how could anyone expect to take it
seriously.<br>
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I myself suspect this has more to do with politics than actual
issues, but that would be speculation without proof which is again
lacking. Anyway how could you take someone seriously that plainly
puts something like this is crap, or garbage in a code field.
Sounds more like sour grapes to me.<br>
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Besides kernel_taint just seems to be a way to not have to deal
with issues. Look at Debian kern.log after you install the
non-free nVidia drivers. Debian does not want to support it so
they taint it. This does not necessarily mean that the drivers
are bad, just that the maintainer does not want to deal with it.<br>
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Oh well off my soap box.<br>
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On 10/11/2011 01:33 PM, Frank Mehnert wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Tuesday 11 October 2011 19:41:51 Stéphane Charette wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I love VirtualBox, and I use it 10+ hours a day, 6 days a week, to do my
regular C++ software development. I regularly have VM uptimes of > 1 week
without problems. Thanks, guys!
But I did see the recent mailing list discussion recently about quality +
betas, and while I personally did not agreed (it works well for me!) I
spotted this significant posting today:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/6/317">https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/6/317</a>
I came across this link from here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTk5Mw">http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTk5Mw</a>
Is this a known problem?
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Which problem? The problems the Phoronix guy wrote about? I read about
VirtualBox bugs every day and of course we have a lot of bugs but we
also have a lot of satisfied users and customers.
If you refer to the Fedora bugs the Redhat guy was complaining about
then my assumption is that the list contains a lot of false positives.
Not every host crash is related to VirtualBox. And unfortunately many
users use outdated versions of VirtualBox because they use the packages
provided by the distribution which is often never updated.
Kind regards,
Frank
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