Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 10:09:47 -0600 From: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> To: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.2 prerelease, virtualbox, and windows guests that freeze... Message-ID: <4D4EC7CB.7010200@computer.org> In-Reply-To: <201102061223.09545.lobo@bsd.com.br> References: <4D4DF58D.2040506@computer.org> <201102061223.09545.lobo@bsd.com.br>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 02/06/2011 09:23, Mario Lobo wrote: > On Saturday 05 February 2011 22:12:45 Eric Schuele wrote: > >> All, > >> > >> I have a laptop running 8.2-prerelease GENERIC. I have virtualbox ose > >> 3.2.12 from ports (and kmod as well). > >> > >> I've only installed windows guests in vbox. I've installed windows 2008 > >> server 64, windows vista 64bit, and windows 7 32bit. I have the vbox > >> hdd images on an NTFS filesystem mounted using fuse. > <snip> > > Eric; > > My advice to you is that you change the file system on drive that holds > the VMs files from NTFS to EXT2. Thanks for the suggestion, however, I've already tried this (sorta). From my original post... > >> I did try a windows guest on a non fuse filesystem just to rule that >> out, but had same issue. > I suppose it may have been a little less than clear. By "non fuse filesystem" I actually meant UFS. The problem still persisted. > > NTFS file systems on FreeBSD or even Linux are OK only for doing small > r/w stuff. I use the ntfs-3g which is really good but don't trust NTFS > for heavy usage under those OSs. Sometimes it's not even trustable under > windows itself. I realize NTFS on fBSD has been shaky in the past, but had heard it had come a long way these days. It does seem to work well for all my purposes, except these VMs. Had hoped NTFS was not the issue. > > EXT on the other hand, is very stable in FreeBSD and has very good > drivers for any version of 32/64 windows (Ext2IFS_1_11a) so you can > access you vdi files. I've not tried the EXT IFS for windows yet, nor had I heard much regarding their success or failure. If your willing to go out on a limb and say "very good drivers for any version of 32/64 windows"... I'll give it a try, and post my results. :) Thanks. > > hope this helps. > > -- > > Mario Lobo > > http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br > > FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99% winblows FREE) > -- Regards, Eric [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk1Ox8sACgkQngSDRM3IXUq/gACgh/g4QrwWbunCWpPKBOabYav0 5iIAoK6obknsOt+fcc2g1vCKY9XvoCKg =3GrC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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