Re: 4.12 REGRESSION, 4.12 does not boot as VirtualBox guest

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Jun 12 2017 - 04:17:01 EST


On Sat, 10 Jun 2017, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 3:33 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Sorry for escalating this right up to you, but this issue
> > does not seem to be getting any attention and I'm not sure
> > which subsys maintainer to poke about this.
>
> Looks like x86. Added people.
>
> > The problem is that the 4.12-rc# kernels fail to boot on
> > VirtualBox guests hosted on any machine with a Sky Lake
> > (and probably also a Kaby Lake) CPU, for details see:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195961

Looks like the WARN/BUG rework. Peter????

Thanks,

tglx