5.18 vmwgfx seems to break booting VirtualBox VMs

[Zack Rusin]

On Mon, 2022-04-11 at 10:52 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Fedora has received a bug report here:
> 
> https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugzilla.redhat.com%2Fshow_bug.cgi%3Fid%3D2072556&data=04%7C01%7Czackr%40vmware.com%7C3664ddfe25334b16109108da1b98a6af%7Cb39138ca3cee4b4aa4d6cd83d9dd62f0%7C0%7C0%7C637852639719382480%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=GpkMy6OuPW06f%2Fzj%2FBGzoq8xT8pNsE6KtH0MTvN5FoA%3D&reserved=0
> 
> That Fedora rawhide VMs no longer boot under the VirtualBox
> hypervisor
> after the VM has been updated to a 5.18-rc# kernel.
> 
> Switching the emulated GPU from vmwaregfx to VirtualBoxSVGA fixes
> this, so this seems to be a vmwgfx driver regression.
> 
> Note I've not investigated/reproduced this myself due to -ENOTIME.

Thanks for letting us know. Unfortunately we do not support vmwgfx on
VirtualBox. I'd be happy to review patches related to this, but it's
very unlikely we'd have to time to look at this ourselves.

z