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  1. Bug #1736116
  2. Comment #26

Comment 26 for bug 1736116

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Tobias Karnat (tobiaskarnat) wrote : Re: Host with kernel 4.13 freezes when starting a VM with VirtualBox

I can confirm Virtualbox 5.2 from virtualbox.org also works with linux-hwe 4.13.0-29.32~16.04.1 from ppa:canonical-kernel-team/pti which fixes Spectre with IBRS/IBPB.

And I hope Virtualbox implements IBRS/IBPB path through to also allow Spectre protection in vms.