Changeset 21955 in vbox for trunk/src/VBox/Installer

Timestamp:

Aug 4, 2009 1:35:06 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

Message:

Linux host driver: workaround for the 2.6.31 performance counter framework initializing the LVTPC APIC vector as NMI

File:

• trunk/src/VBox/Installer/linux/vboxdrv.sh.in (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/VBox/Installer/linux/vboxdrv.sh.in

@@ -153 +153 @@
         if ! rm -f $DEVICE; then
             failure "Cannot remove $DEVICE"
+        fi
+        # HACK: disable the hardware performance counter framework
+        if [ -e /proc/sys/kernel/perf_counter_paranoid ]; then
+          echo 2 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_counter_paranoid 
         fi
         if ! modprobe vboxdrv > /dev/null 2>&1; then