From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 25 16:31:30 2009 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 A13D7106568B for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:31:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from mout0.freenet.de (mout0.freenet.de [IPv6:2001:748:100:40::2:2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 338878FC16 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:31:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [195.4.92.10] (helo=0.mx.freenet.de) by mout0.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #92) id 1MrDhg-0006i4-U6; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:31:28 +0200 Received: from tce43.t.pppool.de ([89.55.206.67]:45272 helo=ernst.jennejohn.org) by 0.mx.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #94) id 1MrDhg-0004xg-Gf; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:31:28 +0200 Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:31:26 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn To: "Kevin Oberman" Message-ID: <20090925183126.361f54aa@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <20090925161738.403D41CC13@ptavv.es.net> References: <20090925113834.09dad3e2@ernst.jennejohn.org> <20090925161738.403D41CC13@ptavv.es.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.2; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Does vbox have support for cd-rom or usb in winxp guest? X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:31:30 -0000 On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:17:38 -0700 "Kevin Oberman" wrote: > > Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:38:34 +0200 > > From: Gary Jennejohn > > > > On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:30:52 -0700 > > "Kevin Oberman" wrote: > > > > > Other than the USB, everything seems to work great for a Windows 7 > > > guest. I just need a bit more memory so I don't spend so much time > > > paging. > > > > > > > This statement interests me because, as I've posted several times, I can't > > even start W7RC with acceleration turned on (running a recent 9-CURRENT). > > Everything worked with older versions of the kernel and port. > > > > What version of FreeBSD and of the port are you using? > > Yes, I have seen your reports and I don't see anything like it. > > I'm running FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 and have been using VB running Windows 7 > Release (not RC) since 8.0-BETA1. > This sort of confirms my suspicion that something has changed in the 9-CURRENT kernel to break VirtualBox. It worked just fine until I installed a new kernel at the beginning of last week :( Hmm, you're running an Intel box? I run AMD64. Might also be a factor. > networking and both work fine for me. No problems encountered at all > other than that memory utilization tends to sit at 85% or more and > paging and swapping on the Windows system makes it very slow and makes > running more than one app at a time impractical. W7 simply can't run > well with 512 MB of memory. > > I ordered memory for my ThinkPad yesterday, so I hope that I'll have > double the memory next week. > More memory definitely helps. I allocated 1GB to W7RC and it runs OK with that. But then, I have 4GB in my box. --- Gary Jennejohn