[vbox-dev] [PATCH] Fix integer truncation when writing XML files

[Frank Mehnert]

Benjamin,

On Thursday 27 January 2011 04:53:10 Benjamin Gilbert wrote:
> When VirtualBox >= 4.0.0 writes out the machine XML file, it truncates
> <CpuIdLeaf> attribute values to nine decimal digits.  This can corrupt
> some CPUID register values and always corrupts leaf IDs >= 0x80000000,
> causing all leaves in the extended CPUID region to be ignored the next
> time the machine is loaded (and dropped from the XML the next time it
> is saved).  The cause is commit r33469, which reduced the size of
> buffers in the XML formatting code below the maximum needed to
> represent integer data types.  The patch below, which is released under
> the MIT license, corrects this.

thanks for this fix! Applied.

Kind regards,

Frank
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