Opened 20 months ago
#21435 new defect
Vboxdrv module triggers IBT protection. VM's fail to start
| Reported by: | bepaald | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox-7.0.6 |
| Keywords: | vboxdrv IBT | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | all | Host type: | Linux |
Description
This has been a problem for a while: The vboxdrv triggers IBT (indirect branch tracking) protection on modern Intel cpu's. This causes the VM to refuse to load.
Disabling IBT (booting the kernel with ibt=off) will make the problem disappear, but the protections are there for a reason. IBT is enabled by default on Arch Linux, but I believe IBT will be enabled by default in the upcoming 6.2 linux kernel release for Intel CPU's from the 11th generation up to the current (13th) gen. More and more CPU's will be affected.
A full log from trying to start a VM is attached. Though it is very short, nothing more happens. Also attached is dmesg output showing the protection being triggered in the kernel when starting a VM.
A bug report was also made filed with the kernel (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216102) and in Arch (https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75481), but the latter suggested to file a bug with Virtualbox, which is what I'm doing now. Please let me know if I can provide more information.
Thanks!


VBox log