Unfortunately it sounds like other software expects only a CPU reset in this case:
"Because that's not the way things work. There's software out there which relies on a triple fault only resetting the CPU and performing a warm reboot (and not really resetting the system at all)." >From https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=61163 [email protected] wrote on 04/10/2014 02:00:31 PM: > From: Ed Maste <[email protected]> > To: Jeff Westfahl <[email protected]>, > Cc: [email protected] > Date: 04/10/2014 02:00 PM > Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] [PATCH RFC] Change triple fault reset behavior to reset guest > Sent by: [email protected] > > On 10 April 2014 13:15, Jeff Westfahl <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here's a patch that changes the behavior of the "triplefaultreset" option to > > reset the whole guest instead of resetting the CPU. In my testing of Phar > > Lap ETS with VirtualBox, the current implementation of triplefaultreset is > > unreliable, and isn't supported at all in SMP guests. > > FreeBSD also has a fallback to a triple fault in case other reset > mechanisms fail. This sounds like a good change to me. _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
