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Date:      Thu, 20 Feb 2020 10:04:31 +0100
From:      Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info>
To:        Bengt Ahlgren <bengt.ahlgren@ri.se>
Cc:        Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life
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On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 8:24 PM Bengt Ahlgren <bengt.ahlgren@ri.se> wrote:
> Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> writes:
> > Another problem is the VirtualBox virtualization that is not really
> > usable anymore. I am aware of closed-source VBox Guest Additions
> > problem. My VM works fine for a first minute or two but then it stops
> > when I start working on it. With DRM and Framebuffer X11 drivers so it
>
> My experience is that you have to enable "Use Host I/O Cache" for the
> SATA storage controller, otherwise it will lock up sooner or later.  It
> seems to not be the default.  With it enabled, I don't have any issues.

Nooo way.. that seems to help! Works slow but it works :-)

I have M2 2TB SSD using encrypted ZFS on my FreeBSD laptop.. so
clearly a VirtualBox drivers / config issue not the OS..?

Thank you Bengt for the hint! Trust in FreeBSD restored :-) :-)

-- 
CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info



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