Instant crash starting VBox on 12.0-Stable

[Kevin Oberman]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 10:26 PM Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:

> After updating my system to 12 and re-installing all ports, the system is
> panicing when I try to run VirtualBox. There have been several bugs opened
> where VBox crashes the system instantly when started. Not the virtual
> system, but the GUI to start (or manage) virtual systems.
>
> I have two slightly different crashes, one failing from vboxnetadp.ko and
> the other crashing in ifindex_alloc in if.c called from vboxnetadp.ko. In
> both cases, the panic was triggered in vboxNetAdpOsCreate.
>
> I'll admit that I was surprised to see these happen even before any VM was
> started or touched.
>
> With possibly three tickets on this, I see no responses to any of them. I
> will add my report of one of them. They really should be merged, though,
> and I am not sure which one will be the final one. I do have both full
> dumps and can make them available.
>
> I really need to resolve this rather soon or fall back to 11.2. Even
> though I have backups, it will be quite  pain!\
>

I have confirmed that the problem exists prior to the branch of 12-STABLE.

Can anyone confirm running VirtualBox on head after 11.0-Release? Moving
back in time in SVN is tricky, and, in this case, sometimes requires
rolling back ports. Any aid in narrowing the failure window would help.
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Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
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