[Nix-dev] VirtualBox causes (host) kernel error "general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP"

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 14/08/13 23:22, Bjørn Forsman wrote:

> All my VirtualBox machines now consistently cause a kernel stack trace
> (in my physical NixOS machine) when trying to start them. Rebooting
> and nix-channel --update && nixos-rebuild switch doesn't change it.
> Does anyone else have that? New machines also cause crash when
> booting.

You probably have KVM active.  It's okay for the KVM kernel module to be loaded,
but there should be no active QEMU instance using it.

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