running tracepath inside VM crashes virtualbox

[Sam Morris]

Running the 'tracepath' command from iputils 3:20100418-3 inside a VM running Debian 6.0 (linux 2.6.32) causes VirtualBox to instantly freeze, in such a severe manner that it is not even possible to kill it via the task manager. The host must be rebooted in order to recover.

[Sam Morris]

VM configuration

[Sam Morris]

vm log file

[defbass]

I can confirm that this problem still exists in version 4.0.2

[gof]

I can also confirm that this is present as a problem on Virtualbox 4.0.4 with a gentoo host and gentoo client.

[p0rk]

I can confirm this bug on Gentoo Linux (host) running VirtualBox 4.0.8 r71778 with two Scientific Linux 6.0 (RHEL fork) guests tracepath-ing each other via an internal network using paravirtualized network devices.

[sjurso]

Confirmed, at the end I was stuck with a zombie process consuming almost all CPU - had to force reboot using Sysrq since even the host wouldn't go down.

Virtualbox 4.1.2 64bit host, 32 bit guests, virtio_net. Using recent kernels and userland.

[Klaus Espenlaub]

Can't reproduce. Since there are reports for various host OSes I assume this plays no role, and I made my test with Debian 5.0 as the host, and Debian 6.0 as the guest. Networking mode was "bridged", and I used a wired Gbit ethernet card. I could get paths with up to 21 hops, without any trouble. Tried 4.0.14 and latest svn sources.

[f15h]

I had the same problem with 4.0.12. Updated to 4.1.4 and the problem is gone. It looks like this bug can be closed as fixed.

[vasily Levchenko]

Does (or was) it depend on attachment of device to wireless or ethernet one?

[Sam Morris]

Confirming that I can no longer reproduce this in VirtualBox 4.1.4.