From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 5 10:58:18 2011 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 31487106564A for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2011 10:58:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xmirya@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vx0-f182.google.com (mail-vx0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE0FF8FC0A for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2011 10:58:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vxh10 with SMTP id 10so2533498vxh.13 for ; Fri, 05 Aug 2011 03:58:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=vb22XTjf9j996+J4H3s9CbtvAWGZ+GZ5d2nUhNNSpSk=; b=Vz0RQXj6k3w6JXS5kEJKvPaiasIG5MlVsQZ70RjjH1O2YYvViksDR3srZ19nQyFK1Q sfEPyoYs/E1T6PihMF62/9i1XyjwQmE/BlDLSSZFaI/DBd9U55ZT4dPX2p/zt7jF9D2p pADRjkt5AB9QvG6xfO/zO8usztvnR5QatbWWk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.26.204 with SMTP id n12mr2018531vdg.143.1312541896314; Fri, 05 Aug 2011 03:58:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.73.14 with HTTP; Fri, 5 Aug 2011 03:58:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <427080d79cbe9c9bf25538540d9acb7b@bluelife.at> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 13:58:16 +0300 Message-ID: From: m irya To: Bernhard Froehlich Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VirtualBox/fbsd9/amd64 + Ubuntu11.04 guest = crash on install 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: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:58:18 -0000 2011/8/4 Bernhard Froehlich : > I think we found the cause of the issue. Could you please throw this > patch in emulators/virtualbox-ose/files/ and rebuild the port? And then > please try to reproduce the problem without enabling Host I/O caching. > > http://home.bluelife.at/patches/patch-src-VBox-Runtime-r3-freebsd-fileaio-freebsd.cpp > > The patch is still untested so please be careful. > > -- > Bernhard Froehlich > http://www.bluelife.at/ > Back with the test results: 1) w/o the patch and Host I/O caching for SATA off: Ubuntu-LTS crashes on boot 2) w/o the patch and Host I/O caching on: works (so the source of the problem is correct) 3) with the patch and caching off: works (so the patch somehow makes it better) Now i'm proceeding with another test case: installing Win7 Home Basic: 1) w/o the patch and caching off: VBox dies on early installation stage 2) w/ the patch and caching off: proceeds further, but still dies at a random point of time while copying files 3) w/ the patch and caching on: finally installed i'll do more testing with debug enabled next week.