[OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox 5.2.14 crashing when attempting to start VM

[Michal Nowak]

On 07/25/18 04:46 PM, russell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been VirtualBox 5.2.14 since it came out without any issues until 
> I performed a pkg update on 22nd July.
> Everytime I perform a pkg update I always specify a new boot 
> environment, so last update which VirtualBox 5.2.14 worked on is the one 
> I performed on the 12th July. I have made this BE activate so I do not 
> have to remember to select it on boot.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Russell

I think it might be the "eager FPU" changes which landed in illumos-gate 
on June 13th:

https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/4c28a617e3922d92a58e813a5b955eb526b9c386
https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/a32a1f376ed9360264e4a374608fdcc5c4927d63

It's reported to the authors of those patches at 
https://github.com/joyent/smartos-live/issues/792.

I don't know of a workaround apart from sticking to versions before the 
change.

Michal