From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 13 06:07:10 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60081106564A for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2011 06:07:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from decke@bluelife.at) Received: from groupware.itac.at (groupware.itac.at [91.205.172.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6B838FC1D for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2011 06:07:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [46.206.235.36] (46.206.235.36) by groupware.itac.at (Axigen) with (CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 2D6444; Sat, 13 Aug 2011 08:07:22 +0200 From: Bernhard =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=F6hlich?= To: Yuri , emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Modest 3.90.7 References: <87a2d6a337080961760c5da503c0a9e0@bluelife.at> <4E3F25D5.6020307@rawbw.com> <4E460089.2040000@rawbw.com> In-Reply-To: <4E460089.2040000@rawbw.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-ID: <1313215652.10994.1.camel@Nokia-N900-42-11> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 08:07:33 +0200 Message-Id: <1313215653.10994.2.camel@Nokia-N900-42-11> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AxigenSpam-Level: 1 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A0B0203.4E46148C.00C4,ss=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown Cc: Subject: Re: Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.1.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Bernhard =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=F6hlich?= List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 06:07:10 -0000 On Sa., 13. Aug. 2011 06:41:45 CEST, Yuri wrote: > On 08/07/2011 16:55, Yuri wrote: > > I ran Ubuntu 32bit and Ubuntu64 bit guests as test. Ran system updates > > there. > > > > Troubling change: when guest is under heavy load > > downloading/installing updates, it causes the internet radio > > disruption playing as the 'mplayer' host process. It sounds exactly > > like the needle skipping through the vinyl record tracks. (short > > interruptions of the digital signal) This never happened before, with > > or without the older VBox versions. Just in case this is useful, my > > sound card driver is snd_es137x.ko. > > > > Also behavior of this old bug http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6314 > > changed. First time I tried, it said that it failed to start the > > machine with the error "No error". The second time it actually worked > > (!) and my old long dead Windows guest is alive again. It worked the > > third and the fourth times too. I guess it is fixed now, maybe with a > > possible caveat. But Windows guest also causes the above mentioned > > troubling sound effect. > > My guess is that 4.1.0 kernel module became heavier on CPU and this > impacts sound. I keep seeing this. This is probably general vbox bug, > not FreeBSD port one. > > Could you also publish port directory for 4.1.0 virtualbox-ose? > > I ran Android-2.2. It runs ok, but no sound. The reason is that VBox > only has OSS option enabled (probably because your build has > --disable-pulse) and Android only supports ALSA and PulseAudio (through The ports are available in a tar.gz archive and you find the link to it in the cft mail at the bottom. I have also seen some audio jitter with Windows guests and 4.0.x but only with the default audio implementation. The problem was gone by switching to Intel HDA.