Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:41:24 +0000 From: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> To: Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for testers: VirtualBox 3.1.4 update Message-ID: <201004212041.24826.lobo@bsd.com.br> In-Reply-To: <2648ad86a213021a12aaa2ffcab2c9bc@bluelife.at> References: <b125726c2b23907bc4a2dc547ca8e091@bluelife.at> <201004201742.01578.lobo@bsd.com.br> <2648ad86a213021a12aaa2ffcab2c9bc@bluelife.at>
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On Wednesday 21 April 2010 07:11:43 Bernhard Froehlich wrote: > On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:42:01 +0000, Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> wrote: > > 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. > > It looks like this has already been fixed. Should not happen again with > the next devel port update. > > http://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/28498 > That's great to hear, Bernhard ! I still owe you a reply but new discoveries happened since I wrote you, that I want to comment on in detail. Hopefully I will still find some time to do it today. -- 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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