From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 20 20:42:33 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 F28D31065670 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:42:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lobo@bsd.com.br) Received: from mail-gw0-f54.google.com (mail-gw0-f54.google.com [74.125.83.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACF0D8FC17 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:42:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwj18 with SMTP id 18so763179gwj.13 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:42:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.26.33 with SMTP id 33mr15622203anz.2.1271796150439; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:42:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from papi.localnet ([189.70.218.158]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 26sm60441488anx.3.2010.04.20.13.42.28 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:42:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Mario Lobo To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:42:01 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (FreeBSD/8.0-STABLE; KDE/4.3.5; amd64; ; ) References: <4b07050d225cdbfae1b8988e923ed68e@ringofsaturn.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201004201742.01578.lobo@bsd.com.br> Cc: 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 20:42:33 -0000 On Tuesday 20 April 2010 19:27:15 Brandon Gooch wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Rusty Nejdl 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)