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Date:      Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:56:34 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Virtualbox 4.1.8 vboxdrv instantly panics on 8-stable i386
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1202231750200.88976@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F46C7DF.2060807@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201202230626.q1N6QXr3003939@slippy.cwsent.com> <4F46C7DF.2060807@FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Andriy Gapon wrote:

> on 23/02/2012 08:26 Cy Schubert said the following:
>> In message <4F457AE8.4090708@FreeBSD.org>, Andriy Gapon writes:
>>> on 22/02/2012 12:48 Doug Barton said the following:
>>>> On 02/22/2012 02:23, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>>>> The attached patched should try to grab the memory harder.
>>>>
>>>> Same result, different memory address:
>>>>
>>>> supdrvGipCreate: failed to allocate the GIP page. rc=-8
>>>> vboxdrv: supdrvInitDevExt failed, rc=-8
>>>> module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (vboxdrv, 0xc66e8410, 0) error 12
>>>
>>> OK, now that, thanks to more testers, I realize that this issue is entirely
>>> i386-specific, I think that I might have been barking at the wrong trees.
>>> Now something very i386-ish to try to deal with the problem - the usual patch
>>> file is attached.
>>
>> The patch tests out OK on 8.2 and 9.0. No panic. Fedora 16 runs nicely under vbox.
>
> Thank you for testing!

The later version of the port works now.  The patch file in it is 
different from the second one posted here; should I try the patch?



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