For a while I noticed random crashes of virtualbox, running a win 10 client on a mostly stable amd64 - gentoo - gnome - profile 17 - system. Starting with Virtualbox-5.1.30 I tried all the ~amd64 virtualboxes (5.2.2, 5.2.4) and recognized similar behaviour. The crashes happened more often after upgrading the kernel to 4.12.12 and 4.12.14. and mostly when the windows client checks for, downloads and installs updates. $ dmesg shows this: [ 402.047247] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 402.047254] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 137 at fs/direct-io.c:293 dio_complete+0xcf/0x16b [ 402.047254] Modules linked in: snd_usb_audio uvcvideo snd_usbmidi_lib hid_microsoft videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops videobuf2_v4l2 videobuf2_core snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_codec_generic x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_hda_core snd_pcm snd_timer snd i2c_i801 r8168(O) xhci_pci xhci_hcd intel_pch_thermal thermal fan acpi_pad vboxpci(O) vboxnetadp(O) vboxnetflt(O) vboxdrv(O) nct6775 hwmon_vid coretemp [ 402.047272] CPU: 0 PID: 137 Comm: kworker/0:2 Tainted: G O 4.14.12-gentoo #1 [ 402.047273] Hardware name: MSI MS-7971/Z170-A PRO (MS-7971), BIOS 1.H0 12/21/2016 [ 402.047275] Workqueue: dio/sda4 dio_aio_complete_work [ 402.047276] task: ffff88045cc9a500 task.stack: ffffc900009bc000 [ 402.047278] RIP: 0010:dio_complete+0xcf/0x16b [ 402.047279] RSP: 0018:ffffc900009bfe58 EFLAGS: 00050286 [ 402.047280] RAX: 00000000fffffff0 RBX: 0000000000100000 RCX: ffffea0001a2ec80 [ 402.047281] RDX: ffff88046ec23708 RSI: ffffffff820c01f6 RDI: ffffffff8210ae77 [ 402.047282] RBP: ffff88038cb6c580 R08: 0000000000000007 R09: ffffea0001a2ec60 [ 402.047282] R10: ffff8800859e4fa0 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000100000 [ 402.047283] R13: 00000001d6f00000 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: ffffe8ffffc15400 [ 402.047284] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88046ec00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 402.047285] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 402.047286] CR2: ffffa58448a0d858 CR3: 000000000220a005 CR4: 00000000003626f0 [ 402.047286] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 402.047287] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 402.047288] Call Trace: [ 402.047291] process_one_work+0x18d/0x306 [ 402.047293] worker_thread+0x1de/0x2a6 [ 402.047295] ? rescuer_thread+0x272/0x272 [ 402.047296] kthread+0x115/0x11d [ 402.047297] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x3a/0x3a [ 402.047300] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 [ 402.047301] Code: 01 75 2a 48 8b 45 18 48 8b 78 30 48 83 7f 58 00 74 1b 49 8d 54 1d ff 4c 89 ee 48 c1 fe 0c 48 c1 fa 0c e8 06 ea f9 ff 85 c0 74 02 <0f> ff f6 45 00 08 75 1e 48 8b 7d 18 f0 ff 8f 44 01 00 00 75 11 [ 402.047321] ---[ end trace 63f411ef2c8f1cd3 ]--- [ 608.166613] traps: INTNET-RECV[1344] general protection ip:7fb126b917a3 sp:7fb0aaf2bc18 error:0 in VBoxRT.so[7fb126afb000+26f000] [ 608.303393] device eth0 left promiscuous mode [ 608.307655] vboxnetflt: 0 out of 64810 packets were not sent (directed to host) After thinking further, I remember that before the crashes I increased the number of cpu shown to the client to 2. After I set I back to 1 the windows client in virtualbox-5.1.30 runs again for hours without any crash. I assume there is a multiprocessor issue related to the network stack or the virtualbox io system. Also it might maybe be influenced by the Realtek r8168 kernel network module... -------- muli ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.3.13 (python 3.5.4-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/gnome/systemd, gcc-6.4.0, glibc-2.25-r9, 4.14.12-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.14.12-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-6600K_CPU_@_3.50GHz-with-gentoo-2.4.1 KiB Swap: 33554428 total, 33554428 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 08:15:01 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: df83291b6825f78e26c5b8b38df49bc1546e43a7 sh bash 4.4_p12 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.29.1 p3) 2.29.1 app-shells/bash: 4.4_p12::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0-r3::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.24.3::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.14-r1::gentoo, 3.5.4-r1::gentoo, 3.6.3-r1::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.9.6::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.29.2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.4.1-r2::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.10-r4::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 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PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ------- Ervin
Correction: 5.1.30 runs for hours, 5.2.4 crashes randomly with 1 CPU configured. Now I try 5.2.2. ervin
Switching back to stable 5.1.30, 5.2.2 crashed, too. Does anyone recognize similar behaviour? ervin
After upgrading to virtualbox-5.1.32 this spontaneous bug reappear. I played around and added some IOMMMU option to the kernel, because vbox didn't find it. I also upgraded to unstable 5.2.26, with same behaviour. No success, vbox crashes a few minutes after boot the vm, while windows inside tries to update itself. At least I found the option of emulated Network Hardware. Since the paravirtual device seem a somehow logical option, but windows doesn't support it. So I switched to the Intel Pro/1000 MT Server (82545EM). Because of that switching, DesktopNIC -> Paravirtual NIC -> ServerNIC Windows reinstalls some drivers. Since then, no crashes occurred for hours. Maybe, those crashes are related to Windows drivers, the vbox emulation of the desktop NIC or some windows confusness with those nic drivers. I hope that's because around in the world there is no Idea what causes this, even in the partially unfriendly Community VBOX issue tracker. I test tomorrow and then, if no crash occur, mark this bug as resolved. Kind regards, Viele Grüße, много привет, 許多問候， Ervin
10 hours running virtualbox/win10 and no segfault. set to resolved / worksforme ervin
After a Kernel (and many other) update(s) it starts again segfaulting. Usually when Windows 10 update is running.
Is this still an issue with recent virtualbox releases?
(In reply to Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) from comment #6) > Is this still an issue with recent virtualbox releases? Seems not. I switched back to some standard intel network card and used the current ~amd64 virtualbox a few days (~30hours) without rhat issue. Inclusive some windows updates @ startup of the vm. Mark this item as Resolved/obsolete
