Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:42:01 +0000 From: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for testers: VirtualBox 3.1.4 update Message-ID: <201004201742.01578.lobo@bsd.com.br> In-Reply-To: <g2u179b97fb1004201227jae47800ap89dae2fd5135739a@mail.gmail.com> References: <b125726c2b23907bc4a2dc547ca8e091@bluelife.at> <4b07050d225cdbfae1b8988e923ed68e@ringofsaturn.com> <g2u179b97fb1004201227jae47800ap89dae2fd5135739a@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tuesday 20 April 2010 19:27:15 Brandon Gooch wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Rusty Nejdl <rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com> wrote: > >>> 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 > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> 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. Any VM with more > > 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. He enabled that in his motherboard and Virtualbox became > > more 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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" > Just complementing Rusty's comments. As far as I know, this ganged/unganged thing is specific to Phenom processor. I too am following 8-STABLE/Nvidia BUT I am running the Vbox devel port because of the MAC support. I always have to adjust the code because VboxGlobal.cpp is checking for Xinerama, which compiles fine but when running it doesn't find any Xinerama functions, so I simply take it off the code and it runs fine, and I don't use or need Xinerama anyway. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99,7% winfoes FREE)
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