From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 6 15:49:08 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB6DD106566C for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2011 15:49:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lobo@bsd.com.br) Received: from mail-gy0-f182.google.com (mail-gy0-f182.google.com [209.85.160.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B26C8FC14 for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2011 15:49:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyf3 with SMTP id 3so1532623gyf.13 for ; Sun, 06 Feb 2011 07:49:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.90.102.15 with SMTP id z15mr18076982agb.190.1297005818843; Sun, 06 Feb 2011 07:23:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from papi.localnet ([187.113.126.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n63sm2068143yha.20.2011.02.06.07.23.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 06 Feb 2011 07:23:38 -0800 (PST) From: Mario Lobo To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 12:23:09 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.2-PRERELEASE; KDE/4.5.2; amd64; ; ) References: <4D4DF58D.2040506@computer.org> In-Reply-To: <4D4DF58D.2040506@computer.org> X-KMail-Markup: true MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201102061223.09545.lobo@bsd.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Eric Schuele Subject: Re: 8.2 prerelease, virtualbox, and windows guests that freeze... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:49:08 -0000 On Saturday 05 February 2011 22:12:45 Eric Schuele wrote: > All, > > I have a laptop running 8.2-prerelease GENERIC. I have virtualbox ose > 3.2.12 from ports (and kmod as well). > > I've only installed windows guests in vbox. I've installed windows 2008 > server 64, windows vista 64bit, and windows 7 32bit. I have the vbox > hdd images on an NTFS filesystem mounted using fuse. > > My box is a dual boot machine between FreeBSD and Windows. My desire is > to be able to utilize the same virtual machine in vbox on both my > Windows and FreeBSD installations. > > I can successfully utilize the virtuals in vbox (same version) in > Windows. However when I utilize any of the virtual machines in FreeBSD, > they run for several minutes and eventually "freeze". Freeze may not > necessarily be the correct term. All windows processes on the virtual > machine begin to die. First one process, then another, then all. Hard > to explain, which may not help my cause here. But, most important > fact... in Windows they work fine... under FreeBSD they run for a while > and then cease to run. When the VM is good and dead, it is always dead > with the little vbox virtual hard disk LED lit up (no idea if that is > important). > > Previously, they would run for a *very* short time. seconds? minutes? > and then die (sometimes I couldn't login). I disabled sound support and > now they run for 10-15 minutes. Had one run for an hour or two the > other day, but can't reproduce that. Usually 10-15 minutes max. > > Network works fine inside the virtual. > > I'm new to VirtualBox on FreeBSD. I've used it a bit on Windows with > good results. > > I did try a windows guest on a non fuse filesystem just to rule that > out, but had same issue. > > What else could I provide that might allow someone to point me in the > right direction here? > > Thanks. > > -- > Regards, > Eric Eric; My advice to you is that you change the file system on drive that holds the VMs files from NTFS to EXT2. NTFS file systems on FreeBSD or even Linux are OK only for doing small r/w stuff. I use the ntfs-3g which is really good but don't trust NTFS for heavy usage under those OSs. Sometimes it's not even trustable under windows itself. EXT on the other hand, is very stable in FreeBSD and has very good drivers for any version of 32/64 windows (Ext2IFS_1_11a) so you can access you vdi files. hope this helps. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99% winblows FREE)