[vbox-dev] OSE r32797 causes null-pointer dereference on linux host

Frank Mehnert frank.mehnert at oracle.com
Thu Oct 7 16:04:04 GMT 2010


Walt,

On Wednesday 06 October 2010, walt wrote:
> My amd64 machine doesn't print anything at all, but syslog on my
> x86 is included below.  It makes sense that the offending code has
> to do with timers because GVMM_SCHED_WITH_PPT is the only thing
> changed by r32797.

I have a tickless system here as well and currently running
Linux 2.6.36-rc7. Could you check if the problem persists if
you update to this version? And please make sure to update the
VBox source code to r32985 or later.

Kind regards,

Frank
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