From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 21 07:11:48 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 346DF1065674 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:11:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from decke@bluelife.at) Received: from mail.itac.at (mail.itac.at [91.205.172.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 900438FC18 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:11:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [91.205.172.21] (helo=webmail.bluelife.at) by mail.itac.at with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1O4U63-0007vV-3d; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:11:45 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:11:43 +0200 From: Bernhard Froehlich To: Mario Lobo In-Reply-To: <201004201742.01578.lobo@bsd.com.br> References: <4b07050d225cdbfae1b8988e923ed68e@ringofsaturn.com> <201004201742.01578.lobo@bsd.com.br> Message-ID: <2648ad86a213021a12aaa2ffcab2c9bc@bluelife.at> X-Sender: decke@bluelife.at User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Spam-Score: 2.6 (++) X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "mail.itac.at", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:42:01 +0000, Mario Lobo wrote: > 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 [...] Content analysis details: (2.6 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -1.4 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP 3.4 FH_DATE_PAST_20XX The date is grossly in the future. 2.4 DNS_FROM_OPENWHOIS RBL: Envelope sender listed in bl.open-whois.org. -1.8 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list 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: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:11:48 -0000 On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:42:01 +0000, Mario Lobo wrote: > 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. It looks like this has already been fixed. Should not happen again with the next devel port update. http://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/28498 -- Bernhard Fröhlich http://www.bluelife.at/