Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:11:08 -0500 From: Rusty Nejdl <rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Samuel_Mart=C3=ADn_Moro?= <faust64@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-emulation <freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Christophe De Traversay <chris@axis.fr> Subject: Re: VirtualBox: out of swap space Message-ID: <237b18697e32227607a81e5a0ef9653b@ringofsaturn.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin5vMSaoNG6XXEbv-xnfWj=kZjzcZU%2BswBOS4kd@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTin5vMSaoNG6XXEbv-xnfWj=kZjzcZU%2BswBOS4kd@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 17:37:39 +0200, Samuel Martín Moro
<faust64@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I'm trying to have a few BSD VMs (4.7, 5.5, 6.2, 7.2, 8.1)
> running under VirtualBox-OSE / FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-amd64
>
>
> First problem:
> Sometimes, when I start a VM, all other running VM stop,
> their status switch to 'abort' (or whatever the
> traduction is, here it's "avorté").
> Reading my /var/log/messages, I see a few
> 'pid xxxx (VirtualBox), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space'
>
> I've got 8Gb of RAM, and so assumed I wouldn't need any swap.
> Was I wrong?
> Have I to reinstall my server to add some swap?
> (and if so, how much?!)
Samuel,
It is generally a bad idea not to have a swap partition. I have 12GB
of memory and I even hit swap, though very little.
[tethys]:/home/rnejdl> swapinfo -h
Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity
/dev/ada0s1b 4194304 4.5M 4.0G 0%
I have 4GB on mine and that is plenty.
I don't have answers for the below though.
Sincerely,
Rusty Nejdl
>
>
> btw, my PC (home) have the same HWare (core i7 930, 8Gb DDR3)
> I can run two 8.1-RELEASE (amd64 + i386), and two debian
> while host is running compiz and all that gay stuff...
> (ArchLinux x86_64)
>
> except VirtualBox, the server I'm having problems with, is
> hosting some nfs shares and running ion2 (since VBoxVNC
> segfaults... I need a WM). And that's it.
>
>
> Second problem:
> When I'm creating a disk (in VirtualBox), and while there's
> some scp or so running on other guests, these guests display
> some gvfs errors, about not finding ad0.
> Sometimes, they just halt, and wait I pressed a key to reboot.
>
>
> Third problem:
> I already posted that on emulation this morning:
> I can't boot FreeBSD-8.1-amd64. It's stuck in
> 'md0: preloaded image </boot/mfsroot> x bytes 0xsomewhere'
> nothing else happend...
>
>
> I could have finished already if I just had installed a Linux
> host in the first place...
> I read so much posts recently, from FreeBSD/VBox users, saying
> everything's working just fine.
> I assumed it would be OK.
> Obviously not...
>
> Is there some hope sticking with BSD?
> (if I can get rid of the swap and the 8.1 problems, it would
> be fine enough)
>
>
> I'm seriously thinking on dropping that BSD idea, and choosing
> some random linux to make it work... (and maybe, try xen...)
>
>
> What should I do?
>
> Thanks for any advices.
>
>
> Samuel Martín Moro
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