From owner-freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Wed Sep 23 02:10:34 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA767A07309 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 02:10:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feld@FreeBSD.org) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9FCF01324 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 02:10:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feld@FreeBSD.org) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75BCE20668 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 22:10:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web3 ([10.202.2.213]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 22 Sep 2015 22:10:32 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=DyT2cb5cIBiWOdc vRsDzTUy35EE=; b=AqKczcslbASkmR0p06VLqZUZ6K6bmSAZf9UeiGyPnPrnjd4 +wz9TTg5NpEIPJZ6SVuS5jjaS3UkcPFnCq0UbE9KujsaQfUnlZwqWnno/r8mpnzV KilsAf2GaLDUXhyyZm1qHuLAiHnu40m0KftM9qU7pSbXk+uvK12STs3oHzdA= Received: by web3.nyi.internal (Postfix, from userid 99) id 50CFE10400D; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 22:10:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1442974232.1611559.391070321.7F761DD4@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: uTTdk5GSKiipNMfIYAjL2KTRJ3RT56t5uak4uDpfen/8 1442974232 From: Mark Felder To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-39fe9c8e In-Reply-To: <5601C0B8.4000905@protected-networks.net> References: <55FE9662.7000406@aon.at> <1442866256.1127084.389759513.29E96282@webmail.messagingengine.com> <56017026.6040809@aon.at> <5601AB71.9000003@aon.at> <5601C0B8.4000905@protected-networks.net> Subject: Re: VirtualBox mangles memory Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 21:10:32 -0500 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 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, 23 Sep 2015 02:10:34 -0000 On Tue, Sep 22, 2015, at 15:57, Michael Butler wrote: > On 09/22/15 16:20, Adam Vande More wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Martin Birgmeier wrote: > > >> I am quite sure that the > >> cause is to be found there > >> > > > > I don't see any cause for surety in the info you have given us. Have you > > tried any basic steps like monitoring usage during these events or running > > it under truss/valgrind etc to find out what is going on? > > > > Another data point .. > > I run it on -CURRENT and there have been a number of VM-related changes > of late but I don't have any problems with it. > > However, you *must* recompile (at least) the modules whenever the kernel > is rebuilt as they depend heavily on the underlying kernel structures, > > imb > I agree. Just to be safe we really shouldn't provide packages for the virtualbox kmods. It's just asking for trouble. -- Mark Felder ports-secteam member feld@FreeBSD.org