id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,guest,host 14965,CPU general protection fault when starting VM in newly released VirtualBox 5.0.12,sdford,,"After upgrading to Virtualbox 5.0.12, we are getting a general protection fault when starting a VM: {{{ Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.623107] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] Modules linked in: vboxpci(OE) vboxnetadp(OE) vboxnetflt(OE) vboxdrv(OE) btrfs xor raid6_pq ufs qnx4 hfsplus hfs minix ntfs msdos jfs xfs libcrc32c pci_stub iosf_mbi kvm_intel kvm crct10dif_pclmul ppdev crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel cirrus ttm aes_x86_64 lrw drm_kms_helper gf128mul glue_helper ablk_helper cryptd drm serio_raw syscopyarea sysfillrect pvpanic sysimgblt parport_pc 8250_fintek parport mac_hid i2c_piix4 nls_utf8 isofs 8139too floppy psmouse 8139cp mii pata_acpi [last unloaded: vboxdrv] Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] CPU: 0 PID: 23258 Comm: EMT Tainted: G OE 3.19.0-33-generic #38~14.04.1-Ubuntu Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] task: ffff880036b49d70 ti: ffff88003fc98000 task.ti: ffff88003fc98000 Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] RIP: 0010:[] [] 0xffffffffc000b45e Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] RSP: 0018:ffff88003fc9bd48 EFLAGS: 00010206 Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] RAX: 000000000000009b RBX: 00000000ffffffdb RCX: 000000000000009b Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88003fc9bca0 Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] RBP: ffff88003fc9bd88 R08: ffffffff81815108 R09: 000000008000000a Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] R10: 0000000000000009 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000001000020 Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] R13: 0000000000000020 R14: ffff880014dbdf10 R15: 0000000000000000 Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] FS: 00007fbb322bb700(0000) GS:ffff88007fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] CR2: 00007fbb3205f000 CR3: 000000000a3d8000 CR4: 00000000000406f0 Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] Stack: Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] 0000000000000000 000000000000003f ffff88003fc9bd88 ffffffff00000000 Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffc900008f1010 Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] ffff88003fc9bda8 ffffffffc001fb3c 0000000000000000 ffffffffc07601c0 Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] Call Trace: Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] [] ? supdrvIOCtl+0x1fc0/0x3400 [vboxdrv] Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] [] ? VBoxDrvLinuxIOCtl_5_0_12+0x121/0x210 [vboxdrv] Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] [] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x2f8/0x510 Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] [] ? trace_do_page_fault+0x45/0x100 Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] [] ? SyS_ioctl+0x81/0xa0 Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] [] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] Code: 0e 00 00 00 01 00 89 c1 0f 32 48 c1 e2 20 89 c0 48 09 d0 48 89 05 a3 ac 0e 00 0f 20 e0 48 89 05 81 ac 0e 00 b8 9b 00 00 00 89 c1 <0f> 32 48 c1 e2 20 89 c0 48 09 d0 48 89 05 78 ac 0e 00 b8 80 00 Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] RIP [] 0xffffffffc000b45e Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.624017] RSP Dec 21 20:26:15 HOSTNAME kernel: [2323400.849237] ---[ end trace 8dac6f21b9aec12d ]--- }}} Here is VBox.log: {{{ VirtualBox VM 5.0.12 r104815 linux.amd64 (Dec 18 2015 18:20:39) release log 00:00:00.322506 Log opened 2015-12-21T20:26:14.864896000Z 00:00:00.322507 Build Type: release 00:00:00.322510 OS Product: Linux 00:00:00.322511 OS Release: 3.19.0-33-generic 00:00:00.322512 OS Version: #38~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Nov 6 18:17:28 UTC 2015 00:00:00.322584 DMI Product Name: Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) 00:00:00.322599 DMI Product Version: pc-i440fx-trusty 00:00:00.322696 Host RAM: 2001MB total, 1458MB available 00:00:00.322700 Executable: /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxHeadless 00:00:00.322701 Process ID: 23249 00:00:00.322701 Package type: LINUX_64BITS_UBUNTU_12_04 00:00:00.495355 Installed Extension Packs: 00:00:00.495401 None installed! 00:00:00.497797 Console: Machine state changed to 'Starting' }}} The problem appears to be related to running VirtualBox 5.0.12 inside a QEMU KVM virtual machine. Our use-case is to help parallelize automated tests by running multiple vagrant+Virtualbox instances, each isolated in their own QEMU KVM virtual machine. This prevents tests from conflicting with each other. == Workaround == VirtualBox 5.0.10 works perfectly, so we are currently working around this by downgrading to 5.0.10.",defect,closed,other,VirtualBox 5.0.12,fixed,,,Linux,Linux