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Date:      Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:37:40 +0100
From:      Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at>
To:        Alexander Zagrebin <alexz@visp.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Call for testers: VirtualBox 3.1.4 update
Message-ID:  <47e7eff28af18f149a9e3f4f31d3254d@bluelife.at>
In-Reply-To: <2DFB65D67E9140B6B82B1608007C5200@vosz.local>
References:  <b125726c2b23907bc4a2dc547ca8e091@bluelife.at> <2DFB65D67E9140B6B82B1608007C5200@vosz.local>

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On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:19:39 +0300, "Alexander Zagrebin" <alexz@visp.ru>
wrote:
> VirtualBox still crashes when saving state in the headless mode.
> 
> Try these commands to reproduce the bug (may be the VirtualBox needs
> to be compiled without X11):
> 
> $ VBoxHeadless -s Test &
> $ VBoxManage controlvm Test savestate
> Sun VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.1.4_OSE
> (C) 2005-2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> All rights reserved.
> 
> 0%...10%...20%...
> Error: failed to save machine state. No error message available!
> 
> The reason is an arithmetic exception (division by zero) in the
> displayMakeThumbnail (src/VBox/Main/DisplayImpl.cpp, line 161)
> due to cx and cy are set to 0.
> 
> cxThumbnail = (kMaxSizeThumbnail * cx) / cy;
> 
> The one of possible solutions - don't make the thumbnail (see attached
> patches) 

I can perfectly reproduce that on Linux with VirtualBox 3.1.4 so this
looks like a general VirtualBox problem. It would be good to file a
virtualbox bugreport and attach the patches there.

-- 
Bernhard Fröhlich
http://www.bluelife.at/


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org 
>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
>> Bernhard Froehlich
>> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 1:21 PM
>> To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org
>> Subject: Call for testers: VirtualBox 3.1.4 update
>> 
>> Grias di,
>> 
>> we are preparing the VirtualBox 3.1.4 update to fix the 
>> vtophys problems
>> with the current port on 9-CURRENT and STABLE kernels and need some
>> feedback for this. Many thanks to all developers and testers 
>> that helped
>> to track this issue down and Alexander Eichner for all the work and
>> fixing it.
>> 
>> 
>> Changelog from VirtualBox is available here:
>> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
>> 
>> Changes in the port:
>>   - VirtualBox and Guest Additions updated to 3.1.4
>>   - Add UNIQUENAME to fix options file clashes between the virtualbox
>>     ports [0]
>>   - Fixed vtophys problems on CURRENT and STABLE kernes newer than
>>     January 23th [1]
>>   - Fixed page double wiring issue in rtR0MemObjNativeAllocPage [2]
>> 
>> PR: ports/143361 [0]
>> Submitted by: Martin Birgmeier <martin.birgmeier AT aon.at> [0]
>>               Alexander Eichner <Alexander.Eichner AT Sun.COM> [1]
>> Thanks To: All testers on emulation@ and current@ [1]
>>            Giovanni Trematerra <giovanni.trematerra AT gmail.com> [1]
>>            Ian Freislich <ianf AT clue.co.za> [1]
>> Reported by: Alan Cox <alc AT cs dot rice dot edu> [2]
>> 
>> 
>> How to upgrade:
>>   - Fetch the new ports:
>>     # fetch 
>> http://svn.bluelife.at/nightlies/virtualbox-port-r758.tar.gz
>>     # tar xf virtualbox-port-r758.tar.gz
>> 
>>   - Build the new ports:
>>     # cd virtualbox-ose-kmod && make
>>     # cd ../virtualbox-ose && make
>> 
>>   - If build was ok, deinstall old port
>>     # pkg_delete virtualbox-\*
>> 
>>   - Install new ports:
>>     # cd ../virtualbox-ose-kmod && make install clean
>>     # cd ../virtualbox-ose && make install clean
>> 
>> For FreeBSD guests within VirtualBox please use the
>> emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions port from the FreeBSD ports tree.
>> 
>> 
>> Check the wiki page for known problems: 
>> http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox
>> 
>> Please report any functionality which was working with 
>> previous versions
>> of VirtualBox and no longer working with 3.1.4 or any build failure.
>> 
>> Many thanks to the VirtualBox developers, all testers and 
>> patch submitters
>> and the whole vbox@ team.
>> 
>> 
>> Happy Testing!
>> 
>> - - Bernhard (decke) on behalf of the FreeBSD Vbox Team
>> 
>> -- 
>> Bernhard Frцhlich
>> http://www.bluelife.at/
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