virtualbox and kern.log growing to infinity

Luca Olivetti luca at ventoso.org
Mon Nov 23 16:19:03 UTC 2015


El 23/11/15 a les 17:04, Luca Ferrari ha escrit:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978 at infinito.it> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I'm running wily 15.10, and today I ran out of my log partition space.
>> After a few analysis I found a kern.log file grown more than 8 GB in a
>> single day.
>> I can see a lot of trace added to the file while virtual box
>> 5.0.0r101573 is running windows 7 guest:
>>
>
>
> As far as I can tell this happens with any guest operating system, so
> it seems a problem of the misture of kernel 4.2.0.16 and virtual box
> 5.0.0.

I'm running virtualbox all day long and I don't see those messages.
My kern.log currently is 40k bytes, while I have a 1.5M bytes kern.log.1

uname -a says

Linux seis 4.2.0-18-generic #22-Ubuntu SMP Fri Nov 6 18:25:50 UTC 2015 
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


and virtualbox is 5.0.4-dfsg-2

Bye
-- 
Luca






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