when starting a 1.6.0 VM on fedor8 or fedora 9 with hardware assist virtualization enabled vboxdrv gives a general protection faults

[jboyerjr@…]

general protection fault: 0000 [1] SMP

CPU 0

Modules linked in: tun vboxdrv autofs4 coretemp hwmon lockd sunrpc bridge nf_con ntrack_netbios_ns xt_tcpudp ipt_REJECT ipt_LOG nf_conntrack_ipv4 xt_state nf_con ntrack iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables acpi_cpufreq freq_table dm_multipath kv m_intel kvm snd_hda_intel snd_usb_audio snd_usb_lib snd_rawmidi snd_seq_dummy sn d_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss ppdev snd_mixer_ oss firewire_ohci firewire_core parport_pc snd_pcm dcdbas floppy parport snd_tim er iTCO_wdt snd_page_alloc iTCO_vendor_support i2c_i801 crc_itu_t tg3 pcspkr i82 975x_edac i2c_core button snd_hwdep serio_raw edac_core sg snd sr_mod soundcore cdrom ata_piix dm_snapshot dm_zero dm_mirror dm_mod ahci libata sd_mod scsi_mod

ext3 jbd mbcache uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ehci_hcd [last unloaded: microcode] Pid: 5453, comm: VirtualBox Not tainted 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64 #1 RIP: 0010:[<ffffc200052d716f>] [<ffffc200052d716f>] RSP: 0018:ffff8100d084fd40 EFLAGS: 00010002 RAX: 0000000000000264 RBX: ffffc20005295320 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: ffffc20005295320 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffffc20005295000 RBP: ffff8100d084fd68 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffc20005295000 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffff8100d3433bc0 R12: 00000000ffffffdb R13: ffff8100dd095ed0 R14: 00000000c0305689 R15: 000000004210fe40 FS: 0000000042110950(0063) GS:ffffffff813f6000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00000000008a0225 CR3: 00000000d0820000 CR4: 00000000000026e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400

Process VirtualBox (pid: 5453, threadinfo ffff8100d084e000, task ffff8100d084c000) Stack: ffffc200052d7012 0000000000000010 ffffffff883ad541 00000000fffffff9

ffff8100dd095ed0 ffff8100d084fd98 ffffffff883ada38 0000000000000001 ffff8100d084fe98 ffff8100d084fe08 ffffffff811058cc ffff8100d084fe38

Call Trace:

[<ffffffff883ad541>] ? :vboxdrv:g_abExecMemory+0xb601/0x180000 [<ffffffff883ada38>] :vboxdrv:g_abExecMemory+0xbaf8/0x180000 [<ffffffff811058cc>] ? avc_has_perm+0x4e/0x60 [<ffffffff8839e7d6>] :vboxdrv:supdrvIOCtl+0xeef/0x1355 [<ffffffff8839f2b1>] ? :vboxdrv:rtMemAlloc+0xa5/0xdd [<ffffffff8839b276>] :vboxdrv:VBoxDrvLinuxIOCtl+0x11d/0x19c [<ffffffff810b102e>] vfs_ioctl+0x2a/0x78 [<ffffffff810b12c3>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x247/0x261 [<ffffffff810b1332>] sys_ioctl+0x55/0x77 [<ffffffff8100c052>] tracesys+0xd5/0xda

Code: 20 d8 48 89 82 a0 02 00 00 0f 20 e0 48 89 82 a8 02 00 00 48 83 e0 70 8b 8a

50 0a 00 00 23 8a 68 0b 00 00 09 c8 0b 82 6c 0b 00 00 <0f> 22 e0 8b 82 38 0a 00 00 83 e0 04 0d 3b 00 00 80 0f 22 c0 0f

RIP [<ffffc200052d716f>]

RSP <ffff8100d084fd40>

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[Sander van Leeuwen]

Get rid of KVM please. The check for its presence is broken in 1.6.0 (already fixed).