[CentOS] Centos bug 15570 - Not just a VBOX bug, can also reproduce on direct hardware install

Thu Feb 14 23:03:55 UTC 2019
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 2:58 PM Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 2:32 PM Steve Gomez <steve.gomez.sg79 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > However, the bug lists seem to refer only to issues with VirtualBox.  I
> > have experienced the same symptom when installing on a "hardware" system
> > (no hypervisor).  The same commands above also provide a workaround here,
> > but thought the flag should be raised for CentOS and RHEL that it doesn't
> > seem to be just VBOX.
>
> As noted in the CentOS bug report you referenced (
> https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=15570 ), I filed a report upstream
> ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1658669, marked
> private). In that RHBZ, they were able to reproduce it without
> VirtualBox. Therefore they are aware this is not just a VBox problem.
> The fix has been added to kernel-3.10.0-984.el7, meaning it will be in
> the EL 7.7 kernel.
>
> Now there is a separate RHBZ for "Z-Stream" for the same issue. This
> means that the fix will be ported to the current series (EL 7.6).
> Unfortunately I have no access to this BZ, so cannot tell the progress
> there. Once it is fixed in RHEL, CentOS will inherit it.
>
> Akemi

I added the following note to bug 15570:

"The problem is not unique to VirtualBox. It can be reproduced _without_ VBox."

Akemi