[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#629176: virtualbox-ose-dkms: Warning about "perf_counter_paranoid" during boot

[Hagen Fürstenau]

Package: virtualbox-ose-dkms
Version: 3.2.10-dfsg-1
Severity: important

During boot I get the following warning:

vboxdrv: Warning: 2.6.31+ kernel detected. Most likely the hardware performance
vboxdrv: counter framework which can generate NMIs is active. You have to
prevent
vboxdrv: the usage of hardware performance counters by
vboxdrv:   echo 2 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_counter_paranoid

According to http://vbox.innotek.de/pipermail/vbox-dev/2010-June/002860.html
and http://www.familytidings.com/blog/?p=599 this can lead to host reboots.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose-dkms depends on:
ii  dkms                          2.1.1.2-5  Dynamic Kernel Module Support Fram

virtualbox-ose-dkms recommends no packages.

virtualbox-ose-dkms suggests no packages.

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