From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 9 16:11:12 2010 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 4A45D106568C for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 16:11:12 +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 1381B8FC1C for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 16:11:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ASSP.nospam (tethys [71.252.219.43]) (authenticated bits=0) by tethys.ringofsaturn.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o79GB9sN046516; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 11:11:09 -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; 9 Aug 2010 11:11:08 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:11:08 -0500 From: Rusty Nejdl To: =?UTF-8?Q?Samuel_Mart=C3=ADn_Moro?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <237b18697e32227607a81e5a0ef9653b@ringofsaturn.com> X-Sender: rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.4-trunk X-Assp-Version: 1.7.5.7(1.0.03) on ASSP.nospam X-Assp-Intended-For-IP: 71.252.219.43 X-Assp-Passing: authenticated X-Assp-ID: ASSP.nospam 70269-06254 X-Assp-Envelope-From: rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com Cc: freebsd-emulation , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Christophe De Traversay Subject: Re: VirtualBox: out of swap space 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: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:11:12 -0000 On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 17:37:39 +0200, Samuel Martín Moro 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 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 > {EPITECH.} tek4 > CamTrace S.A.S > (+033) 1 41 38 37 60 > 1 Allée de la Venelle > 92150 Suresnes > FRANCE > > "Nobody wants to say how this works. > Maybe nobody knows ..." > Xorg.conf(5) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-emulation-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"