[vbox-dev] Problem with Windows 7 VMs and VB built with iasl from acpica >= 20190329

[Larry Finger]

On 4/23/19 12:27 AM, Kalogrianitis Socratis wrote:
> Larry,
> 
>> Although this is NOT a VirtualBox bug, I am reporting it here so that all of you are aware of the problem.
> 
> It has already been reported in the forums. See "Board index" » "General" » "VirtualBox on Linux Hosts" » "Arch host, Win7 guest BSODs: BIOS not fully acpi compliant" (https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=92709) and the latest reply from "yan12125" on 2019-04-22, 00:58 UTC (https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=92709&start=30#p446990):
> 
>> "Updated Arch Linux package virtualbox 6.0.6-2 is released! It fixed the BSOD issue on win7."

For openSUSE users, an updated package is available as well. It will take a 
while for the new acpica package to propagate through the system, but until it 
does, https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1132941 has instructions on 
getting the corrected package.

Larry