From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 28 01:10:50 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 F3D3A1065675 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:10:49 +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 AA9248FC21 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:10:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ASSP.nospam (tethys.ringofsaturn.com [71.252.219.43]) (authenticated bits=0) by tethys.ringofsaturn.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o2S1Ad45036086; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:10:40 -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; 27 Mar 2010 20:10:34 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:10:34 -0500 From: Rusty Nejdl To: Bernhard Froehlich In-Reply-To: <9eef43b1f473e1b6c10fee14ac3f4733@bluelife.at> References: <9eef43b1f473e1b6c10fee14ac3f4733@bluelife.at> Message-ID: X-Sender: rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.3-trunk Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for testers: VirtualBox 3.1.4 update 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: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:10:50 -0000 On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:53:05 +0100, Bernhard Froehlich wrote: > On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:02:43 -0600, Rusty Nejdl > wrote: >> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:21:14 +0100, Bernhard Froehlich > >> wrote: >>> Grias di, >>> >>> we are preparing the VirtualBox 3.1.4 update to fix the vtophys > problems >>> with the current port on 9-CURRENT and STABLE kernels and need some >>> feedback for this. Many thanks to all developers and testers that > helped >>> to track this issue down and Alexander Eichner for all the work and >>> fixing it. >>> >> >> Bernhard, >> >> As with the previous version and this version, I continue to have > complete >> system freezes when using these machines. The freezes seem to occur > during >> heavy disk usage (for example updating packages on Ubuntu). I am > running: >> >> FreeBSD tethys.ringofsaturn.com 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Fri > Mar >> 12 10:39:31 CST 2010 >> root@tethys.ringofsaturn.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SATURN amd64 >> >> Kernel is from 2 days ago. I am using the NVIDIA Video driver. >> >> There is absolutely nothing in the logs anywhere when the freeze happens >> and I have to hit the power button. >> >> Is anyone else seeing this and any suggestions on how to debug? > > Sorry for the long delay. > > Could you try to use the nv driver? Because there are some known > instabilities with the nvidia driver and vbox. Bernard, I tested today with the latest NVIDIA for x64 and it ran for a couple of hours without a freeze. But, it still froze. I'm running 4 VM's now for a couple of hours with NV driver without issue. It sounds like I need to report this up to Zander with Nvidia unless you have any other suggestions. Sincerely, Rusty Nejdl