From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 6 19:12:47 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D41EA7A; Mon, 6 May 2013 19:12:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.208.146]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE690CE6; Mon, 6 May 2013 19:12:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.151.188]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46CE817331BF; Mon, 6 May 2013 16:12:39 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.208.146]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.151.188]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 06289-07; Mon, 6 May 2013 19:12:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.5.250.150] (remote.ilcs.sd63.bc.ca [142.31.148.2]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 8840A17331BE; Mon, 6 May 2013 16:12:37 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: VirtualBox + FreeBSD 9-STABLE == Frozen Ethernet Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 12:12:35 -0700 Message-Id: <1601E2D3-DF60-4CCB-9F92-9AD05BCBCB10@hub.org> To: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.3 \(1503\)) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1503) Cc: "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 19:12:47 -0000 I'm having an odd issue with FreeBSD that I'm not sure how to trace / = where to look =85=20 I have 6 servers, all identical RAM / CPU / Ethernet / etc =85 4 of them = are running VirtualBox, 2 are running Jails =85 one of the 4 I just = switched from Jail -> Virtualbox =85 When running jail(s), the servers are rock solid =85 as soon as I switch = to VirtualBox (the one I just switched is running one Vbox with a = FreeBSD Guest) =85 nothing else is running on the server =85 but I will = get sporadic freezes of the Ethernet. One ran 46 days before it froze, = then after a reboot, it happened a few hours later, now its been running = several hours again without any issues =85 The machine itself is not frozen =85 I can connect via remote console, = login, do ps, etc =85 so its as if the Ethernet (bce device) just went = offline. I was pointed to a wiki about VirtualBox, and my current loader.conf = looks like: =3D=3D=3D aio_load=3D"YES" kern.ipc.shm_use_phys=3D1 accf_http_load=3D"YES" if_bridge_load=3D"YES" if_tap_load=3D"YES" hw.pci.enable_msix=3D0 vboxdrv_load=3D"YES" net.graph.maxdata=3D65536 =3D=3D=3D I'm running the latest version of 9-STABLE as well as the latest version = of vBox available in ports =85 the bce device is an older version of = Broadcom, so not dealing a new one with new features: bce0: And as I say, these work great with jail'd environments ALIASed onto = them =85 The vBox environments are all configured for network using: --nic1 bridged --bridgeadapter1 bce1 Maybe I'm setting up the network wrong? But, it does work for awhile =85=20= I'm not seeing any errors on the console when the ethernet stops working = =85 nothing to indicate an buffer overflowing or something like that =85 = but, again, I can login and run commands, so if there is something I can = run to get more useful details =85 ?