From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 20 19:27:16 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 8101E106566C for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:27:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f171.google.com (mail-iw0-f171.google.com [209.85.223.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 427F98FC16 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:27:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn1 with SMTP id 1so4455804iwn.27 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:27:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:received:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=hATYMfyD2zL+L5dyR8ggiwr96PISSfaoidFLf8b0Ylo=; b=xqt/N1FP+e720ImzMHH+SAr3q4QvbVb2V6gpYl3F7EtE6YMYxUwmHQuzy+DnOExjTF tdZxTz4zY/JQQ8Yv4ju5iMMVzbiFO3ibDkJU8vSSZnuR/m6XiCYHKPubnNfxwaab5Reh yJirUz79LY12H7PVhDbLQY27gF0aDna9+bEHo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=xq4KLZbjs55EmjvCA9xtKOFN/MHbr0XQrWUD8K7AEWp8+Gwa97/Q+d4XFYMulQXgTl ra4ukDCZr7YP+mfnyF7goSldhZEvQwiSoAzbVkapyZkyHF2Bqf3abRL66UMHsnKr6JbB Gi4823BUEIaV7A6HbzLMdu5Xxnbs7earyuHlI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.44.209 with HTTP; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:27:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4b07050d225cdbfae1b8988e923ed68e@ringofsaturn.com> References: <9eef43b1f473e1b6c10fee14ac3f4733@bluelife.at> <179b97fb1003271835i2f41b7e8yaa7ba337e5c662db@mail.gmail.com> <4b07050d225cdbfae1b8988e923ed68e@ringofsaturn.com> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:27:15 +0000 Received: by 10.231.155.81 with SMTP id r17mr2510062ibw.56.1271791635451; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:27:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: From: Brandon Gooch To: Rusty Nejdl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:27:16 -0000 On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Rusty Nejdl wrot= e: > >>> >>> Bernard, >>> >>> I tested today with the latest NVIDIA for x64 and it ran for a couple > of >>> hours without a freeze. =A0But, it still froze. =A0 I'm running 4 VM's = now >>> for >>> a couple of hours with NV driver without issue. =A0It sounds like I nee= d >>> to >>> report this up to Zander with Nvidia unless you have any other >>> suggestions. >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> Rusty Nejdl >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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" >>> >> >> Hey man, would it be possible for you to enable debugging options on >> your machine, start your VMs running, then switch to ttyv0, and let it >> run for while? This is the only way I can get a clean crash dump and >> generate any data -- I've never been able to "cleanly" crash my system >> running Xorg (it usually freezes). >> >> FYI, I'm running multiple VMs (Windows XP, 7), and I've experienced >> "freezes" running multiple VMs since using VirtualBox (which despite >> the lockups, I'm SOOOOO thankful to have on FreeBSD -- thanks again to >> all the VBox devs!!!!)... >> >> -Brandon > > Brandon, > > Mario Lobo and I have been working on this in the background and we found > that multiple cpu support in Virtualbox appears broken. =A0Any VM with mo= re > than 1 CPU will freeze. > Interesting, however: each of my virtual machines only has 1 cpu... > Mario was also able to find that using unganged memory also confuses > Virtualbox. =A0He enabled that in his motherboard and Virtualbox became m= ore > stable. I'll have to check this out on the Dell 755 with 8 GBs of RAM I'm running. Though, I don't recall seeing a setting for this in the BIOS. > I have been able to run 6 VM's at the same time, with compositing enabled= , > and 3D acceleration in the VM as well, all with 1 CPU per VM only. That's great! Are you getting 3D acceleration in Windows? How? Actually, I've had ZERO lockups since I started following 8-STABLE (updating weekly), using the latest 64-bit NVIDIA drivers, and installing the most recent VirtualBox port (3.1.6_3 from emulation/virtualbox-ose, emulation/virtualbox-ose-kmod). Thanks for the information and suggestions! -Brandon