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Date:      Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:12:31 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org, decke@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD ports list <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Virtualbox 4.1.8 vboxdrv instantly panics on 8-stable i386
Message-ID:  <4F46C7DF.2060807@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <201202230626.q1N6QXr3003939@slippy.cwsent.com>
References:  <201202230626.q1N6QXr3003939@slippy.cwsent.com>

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on 23/02/2012 08:26 Cy Schubert said the following:
> In message <4F457AE8.4090708@FreeBSD.org>, Andriy Gapon writes:
>> on 22/02/2012 12:48 Doug Barton said the following:
>>> On 02/22/2012 02:23, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>>> The attached patched should try to grab the memory harder.
>>>
>>> Same result, different memory address:
>>>
>>> supdrvGipCreate: failed to allocate the GIP page. rc=-8
>>> vboxdrv: supdrvInitDevExt failed, rc=-8
>>> module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (vboxdrv, 0xc66e8410, 0) error 12
>>
>> OK, now that, thanks to more testers, I realize that this issue is entirely
>> i386-specific, I think that I might have been barking at the wrong trees.
>> Now something very i386-ish to try to deal with the problem - the usual patch
>> file is attached.
> 
> The patch tests out OK on 8.2 and 9.0. No panic. Fedora 16 runs nicely under vbox.

Thank you for testing!

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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