From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 22 18:46:20 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51845106564A for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:46:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com) Received: from tethys.ringofsaturn.com (tethys.ringofsaturn.com [71.252.219.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 207808FC1B for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:46:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ASSP.nospam (tethys [71.252.219.43]) (authenticated bits=0) by tethys.ringofsaturn.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o5MIkGKi030824; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:46:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com) Received: from mail.ringofsaturn.com ([71.252.219.43] helo=mail.ringofsaturn.com) with IPv4:25 by ASSP.nospam; 22 Jun 2010 13:46:11 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:46:11 -0500 From: Rusty Nejdl To: Hubert Tournier In-Reply-To: <28941429.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <28823754.post@talk.nabble.com> <4C0F22F0.8070401@mittelstaedt.us> <28827156.post@talk.nabble.com> <1ff5d6f7820bf2f9a55e306a072de641@ringofsaturn.com> <28941429.post@talk.nabble.com> Message-ID: X-Sender: rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.4-trunk Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Panic with FreeBSD Guest in FreeBSD VirtualBox host X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:46:20 -0000 On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 12:57:50 -0700 (PDT), Hubert Tournier wrote: > Hello Rusty and everybody, > > I finally found the origin of the problem. > > In the > http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=32151&sid=4ae06aadbaa77a4ec7c99ce7f1e50cf9 > release notes of VirtuaBox 3.2.6 Beta 1 , there was a line saying: > > > >> Version 3.2.6 will be a maintenance release. The following items were >> fixed and/or added: >> SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle 30 >> ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug >> http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6984 #6984 ) >> > > I changed the line of the SATA adapter in the machine XML files of my > FreeBSD guests and that was it! They now boot and work flawlessly. > > May be the difference with some of you was that i use SATA adapters as a > default, instead of IDE adapters? > > Best regards, > > Hubert Hubert, We (Mario and I) found that our issue was fixed prior to this. I have been running VM's with and without SATA. I have also found that I continue to have freezes but have narrowed in mine to Linux support. So, for me at least, I have no more freezes in VirtualBox but good to know that they knocked out another bug I may have run into. Thanks! Rusty Nejdl