From owner-freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Wed Sep 23 14:33:30 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 67C0DA061B3 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 14:33:30 +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 39D081EF6 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 14:33:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feld@FreeBSD.org) Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36D78200C2 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 10:33:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web3 ([10.202.2.213]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 23 Sep 2015 10:33:29 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc: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=itGJ5KDl0n3soGk u8a24KJnPBh8=; b=NOS6PwN+RWbTG78K3kS2x2YE7yGfrQNa8dgPNHoLXOhHYO9 X73eGTSPq7IyX1zHgbOpocvIIDB6UPF1buNolQW3Dd5QSzsBXKCDYC6J6bTbxwl2 SlLqJ81LnEom1dgvZ9/Pks1Da5sd/ccNWff/ZuQEkM3ReFPU8a4wh92JHw54= Received: by web3.nyi.internal (Postfix, from userid 99) id 0C8CE1011C0; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 10:33:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1443018808.889430.391539601.64FBB01B@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: pXjMPPHwGI/X/P32KimLkZ03ti7Rw6ceuQcBJpk7Z57G 1443018808 From: Mark Felder To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bernhard=20Fr=F6hlich?= Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-2a494e8d In-Reply-To: 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> <1442974232.1611559.391070321.7F761DD4@webmail.messagingengine.com> Subject: Re: VirtualBox mangles memory Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 09:33:28 -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 14:33:30 -0000 On Wed, Sep 23, 2015, at 06:50, Bernhard Fr=F6hlich wrote: > Am 23.09.2015 4:10 vorm. schrieb "Mark Felder" : > > > > > > > > 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. Ha= ve > 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 chang= es > > > of late but I don't have any problems with it. > > > > > > However, you *must* recompile (at least) the modules whenever the ker= nel > > > 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. >=20 > No it's absolutely the right thing to provide them or as a package only > user on a release you would be screwed. As a STABLE or CURRENT user you > should never use any of them. We don't build for every RELEASE. We always build with the oldest supported version in that release train. Right now all packages for 10.2 users are being built on 10.1-RELEASE. This is bad for virtualbox users. Beware of the dragon, etc etc. --=20 Mark Felder ports-secteam member feld@FreeBSD.org