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Re: [LUG] VirtualBox 4.3.8 Issues [Resolved] [Again]
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- Subject: Re: [LUG] VirtualBox 4.3.8 Issues [Resolved] [Again]
- From: Eion MacDonald <eionmac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 21:30:46 +0000
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On 27/03/2014 18:17, bad apple wrote:
> On 26/03/14 19:37, Eion MacDonald wrote:
>>> About time... does nobody actually do unit testing anymore or is
>>>> everyone on the Google it's-never-leaving-beta and
>>>> endusers-are-the-QA-dept tip these days?
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>> I will revisit the problem, and advise.
>
>
> To answer my own question, considering VirtualBox is now under the
> auspices of Oracle, of course they don't bother actually testing
> anything. 2 days after 4.3.10 there is another point release today
> (4.3.10-93012) without a changelog so I can't even tell what they broke
> this time.
>
> The nasty bug we were getting on Gentoo/Slack/Puppy VMs turned out to be
> this one: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/12748
>
> It was a failure to handle MSRs correctly apparently. I did file a bug
> report which unsurprisingly they didn't bother to register on the
> bugtracker (to give them some benefit of the doubt, they probably
> considered it a duplicate - an email to that effect would have been nice
> though).
>
> Regards
>
Slax now works on this latest update.
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regards
Eion MacDonald
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