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Wonder if there's a selection bias here; VirtualBox may be less stable than native hardware or commercial VMs, but it's user base is also using VirtualBox for d
by garethsprice 15y ago
Wonder if there's a selection bias here; VirtualBox may be less stable than native hardware or commercial VMs, but it's user base is also using VirtualBox for different scenarios than native users.
I know I use VirtualBox all the time to try out "risky" behaviors that often end in a crash, because I know I can just roll back if it doesn't work out.
- ajross 15y agoThe issue is that virtualbox is crashing the host kernel, not the guest machines. And specifically that it's polluting Red Hat's automated bug reports from those crashes, and thus wasting QA effort. Being able to filter those out by the taint mechanism in the patch is important and useful information. Read the thread, it's a technical and process discussion, not a flame.
- garethsprice 15y agoAh, missed that, thanks for noting. Yep, that's messed up :)
- danudey 15y agoThe post isn't talking about crashes within VBox, but rather vboxdrv crashing and taking out the host OS, which should (ideally) never happen.
- joelhaasnoot 15y agoSo shouldn't the title be: VBox is crap on Linux?