CentOS virt - Dec 2008 - Warning on VirtualBox 2.1.0 on CentOS 5.2: Kernel Panic

Hi All,

    I just removed Virtual Box 2.1.0 from my system.  When you
boot up an XP guest, you will get a kernel panic.  See
http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2827 for details.

    I hope I saved someone else from the hassle I just
had to go through.

-T

Now for FSCK on my hard drive!

Todd and Margo Chester wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>     I just removed Virtual Box 2.1.0 from my system.  When you
> boot up an XP guest, you will get a kernel panic.  See
> http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2827 for details.
> 
>     I hope I saved someone else from the hassle I just
> had to go through.
> 
> -T
> 
> Now for FSCK on my hard drive!
A duplicate of my bug was posted at VBOX:
     http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2829
on RHEL 5.  He narrowed it down to "host
interface" networking, which is exactly what
I am using.

I made sure all my previous bridging was removed
before install VB 2.1.0. (Yes, I had to put it
back in before reverting.  Good thing I take good
notes!)

-T

Todd and Margo Chester wrote:
> Todd and Margo Chester wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>>     I just removed Virtual Box 2.1.0 from my system.  When you
>> boot up an XP guest, you will get a kernel panic.  See
>> http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2827 for details.
>>
>>     I hope I saved someone else from the hassle I just
>> had to go through.
>>
>> -T
>>
>> Now for FSCK on my hard drive!
> 
> A duplicate of my bug was posted at VBOX:
>      http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2829
> on RHEL 5.  He narrowed it down to "host
> interface" networking, which is exactly what
> I am using.
> 
> I made sure all my previous bridging was removed
> before install VB 2.1.0. (Yes, I had to put it
> back in before reverting.  Good thing I take good
> notes!)
An update.  It seems they got it fixed (in the next release)
 From ticket 2829:


12/29/2008 10:25:54 PM changed by aleksey  ?

Formatting of the previous message got ugly so I am reposting the 
corrected version:

The problem appears with pre-2.6.20 kernels only. The fix will be 
included into the next maintenance release. Since netflt driver always 
comes with source code those who urgently need the fix may apply the 
following patch to src/vboxnetflt/linux/VBoxNetFlt-linux.c (the path is 
relative to your vbox installation directory):

1031c1031
<     INIT_WORK(&pThis->u.s.XmitTask, vboxNetFltLinuxXmitTask, NULL);
---
 >     INIT_WORK(&pThis->u.s.XmitTask, vboxNetFltLinuxXmitTask, 
&pThis->u.s.XmitTask);

Then, kernel modules need to be re-built with

/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

Todd and Margo Chester wrote:
> Todd and Margo Chester wrote:
>> Todd and Margo Chester wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>>     I just removed Virtual Box 2.1.0 from my system.  When you
>>> boot up an XP guest, you will get a kernel panic.  See
>>> http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2827 for details.
>>>
>>>     I hope I saved someone else from the hassle I just
>>> had to go through.
>>>
>>> -T
Fired up Virtual Box 2.1.2.  Problem is fixed.