[vbox-dev] Linux-4.12-rc1 and rc2 not working as vbox guest ?

[Frank Mehnert]

On Montag, 29. Mai 2017 16:58:28 CEST Frank Mehnert wrote:
> Hi Hans,
> 
> On Montag, 29. Mai 2017 16:22:09 CEST Hans de Goede wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > Ok, can you try install a 4.12 kernel, e.g.:
> > 
> > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=892258
> > 
> > Download kernel-core... and kernel-modules... and then do
> > rpm -ivh kernel*.rpm
> > as root from a dir with the 2 downloaded files and boot
> > that on that skylake host (see below).
> 
> thanks, your investigation was very helpful. Now I'm able to reproduce the
> problem with Fedora 25 with a 4.12-rc kernel on a Skylake host.

adding 'noxsave' to the kernel command line is a workaround.

Frank
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