Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 12:12:35 -0700 From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org> Subject: VirtualBox + FreeBSD 9-STABLE == Frozen Ethernet Message-ID: <1601E2D3-DF60-4CCB-9F92-9AD05BCBCB10@hub.org>
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I'm having an odd issue with FreeBSD that I'm not sure how to trace / where to look … I have 6 servers, all identical RAM / CPU / Ethernet / etc … 4 of them are running VirtualBox, 2 are running Jails … one of the 4 I just switched from Jail -> Virtualbox … When running jail(s), the servers are rock solid … as soon as I switch to VirtualBox (the one I just switched is running one Vbox with a FreeBSD Guest) … nothing else is running on the server … but I will get sporadic freezes of the Ethernet. One ran 46 days before it froze, then after a reboot, it happened a few hours later, now its been running several hours again without any issues … The machine itself is not frozen … I can connect via remote console, login, do ps, etc … so its as if the Ethernet (bce device) just went offline. I was pointed to a wiki about VirtualBox, and my current loader.conf looks like: === aio_load="YES" kern.ipc.shm_use_phys=1 accf_http_load="YES" if_bridge_load="YES" if_tap_load="YES" hw.pci.enable_msix=0 vboxdrv_load="YES" net.graph.maxdata=65536 === I'm running the latest version of 9-STABLE as well as the latest version of vBox available in ports … the bce device is an older version of Broadcom, so not dealing a new one with new features: bce0: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2)> And as I say, these work great with jail'd environments ALIASed onto them … The vBox environments are all configured for network using: --nic1 bridged --bridgeadapter1 bce1 Maybe I'm setting up the network wrong? But, it does work for awhile … I'm not seeing any errors on the console when the ethernet stops working … nothing to indicate an buffer overflowing or something like that … but, again, I can login and run commands, so if there is something I can run to get more useful details … ?
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