Hi,

On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 03:21:08PM +0000, Michal Seben wrote:
> On Friday 09 April 2010 12:22:09 Marc Haber wrote:
> > I have a very annoying issue when running Linux 2.6.31.6 and newer
> > with IPv6 enabled inside Virtualbox OSE 3.1.4 (or any older version I
> > tried). This has been reported in the Virtualbox ticket tracker three
> > weeks ago as #6384 (http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6384), and since
> > the issue was introduced with a Linux kernel update, also in Linux
> > Kernel Bugzilla as #15042
> > (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15042). Unfortunately,
> > neither of these tickets have yet been attacked by a developer.
> > 
> > When the guest's ipv6 module is loaded during guest startup, it takes
> > a few seconds (much longer than on real hardware) until ipv6
> > autonegotiation begins. If any application tries to create an IPv6
> > socket before this autonegotiation, the virtualbox process begins to
> > run around in circles, taking one available CPU, until the guest is
> > aborted manually. This, unfortunately, happens as soon as the ssh
> > daemon is started.
> > 
> > I would like to know how to attack this issue. I will happily deliver
> > any debugging information and can probably even grant access to a test
> > system which shows this behavior. The virtualbox ticket (#6384) also
> > contains a full Vbox.log of a guest showing this behavior.
> > 
> > If anybody can help, I would really like to have this issue fixed.
> > 
> maybe related to ?: 
> http://vbox.innotek.de/pipermail/vbox-dev/2010-April/002503.html
> 
> if yes, Sander already created a patch :
> http://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/28090\

After upgrading my virtualbox OSE 3.1.4 to 3.1.6 and applying the
patch from Sander, I have not seen the hangs any more. Judging from
the frequency of the issue happening before, I guess that I should
have seen it, if it's still there.

Thanks for helping.

Greetings
Marc

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