[vbox-dev] [PATCH RFC] Change triple fault reset behavior to reset guest

[Ed Maste]

On 10 April 2014 13:15, Jeff Westfahl <jeff.westfahl at ni.com> wrote:
> Here's a patch that changes the behavior of the "triplefaultreset" option to
> reset the whole guest instead of resetting the CPU. In my testing of Phar
> Lap ETS with VirtualBox, the current implementation of triplefaultreset is
> unreliable, and isn't supported at all in SMP guests.

FreeBSD also has a fallback to a triple fault in case other reset
mechanisms fail.  This sounds like a good change to me.