From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 13 04:41:49 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 220931065670 for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2011 04:41:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Received: from shell0.rawbw.com (shell0.rawbw.com [198.144.192.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FD5E8FC13 for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2011 04:41:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eagle.yuri.org (stunnel@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by shell0.rawbw.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p7D4fjkk022174; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:41:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Message-ID: <4E460089.2040000@rawbw.com> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:41:45 -0700 From: Yuri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110716 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: emulation@freebsd.org References: <87a2d6a337080961760c5da503c0a9e0@bluelife.at> <4E3F25D5.6020307@rawbw.com> In-Reply-To: <4E3F25D5.6020307@rawbw.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Bernhard Froehlich Subject: Re: Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.1.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 04:41:49 -0000 On 08/07/2011 16:55, Yuri wrote: > I ran Ubuntu 32bit and Ubuntu64 bit guests as test. Ran system updates > there. > > Troubling change: when guest is under heavy load > downloading/installing updates, it causes the internet radio > disruption playing as the 'mplayer' host process. It sounds exactly > like the needle skipping through the vinyl record tracks. (short > interruptions of the digital signal) This never happened before, with > or without the older VBox versions. Just in case this is useful, my > sound card driver is snd_es137x.ko. > > Also behavior of this old bug http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6314 > changed. First time I tried, it said that it failed to start the > machine with the error "No error". The second time it actually worked > (!) and my old long dead Windows guest is alive again. It worked the > third and the fourth times too. I guess it is fixed now, maybe with a > possible caveat. But Windows guest also causes the above mentioned > troubling sound effect. My guess is that 4.1.0 kernel module became heavier on CPU and this impacts sound. I keep seeing this. This is probably general vbox bug, not FreeBSD port one. Could you also publish port directory for 4.1.0 virtualbox-ose? I ran Android-2.2. It runs ok, but no sound. The reason is that VBox only has OSS option enabled (probably because your build has --disable-pulse) and Android only supports ALSA and PulseAudio (through patch). Yuri