[Nouveau] [Bug 92515] Virtualbox with 3D acceleration and with installed vbox-additions crashes

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92515

--- Comment #5 from Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> ---
I think it's been pretty much established that vbox uses opengl from multiple
threads at the same time. This is likely to lead to crashes with nouveau... no
amount of upgrading will fix this. [However it should be noted that 10.6 series
was end-of-lifed a long time ago... 11.0.x series is the supported one, with
11.1 coming out soon.]

Resolving this issue is very low on my todo list. Right now I'm aware of two
applications this affects -- vbox, a proprietary closed source app which
includes a kernel module that taints the kernel, and warsow 2.0, which just
came out, and includes a workaround to disable the multithreading. And this
wouldn't matter, but it's also a giant pain to fix in a way that doesn't break
perf for 99.9999% of the users.

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