Call for testers: VirtualBox 3.1.4 update
Bernhard Froehlich
decke at bluelife.at
Wed Apr 21 07:11:48 UTC 2010
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:42:01 +0000, Mario Lobo <lobo at bsd.com.br> wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 April 2010 19:27:15 Brandon Gooch wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Rusty Nejdl <rnejdl at ringofsaturn.com>
> wrote:
>> >>> Bernard,
>> >>>
>> >>> I tested today with the latest NVIDIA for x64 and it ran for a
couple
>> >
>> > of
>> >
>> >>> hours without a freeze. But, it still froze. I'm running 4 VM's
>> >>> now
>> >>> for
>> >>> a couple of hours with NV driver without issue. It sounds like I
>> >>> need
>> >>> to
>> >>> report this up to Zander with Nvidia unless you have any other
>> >>> suggestions.
>> >>>
>> >>> Sincerely,
>> >>> Rusty Nejdl
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>> >> Hey man, would it be possible for you to enable debugging options on
>> >> your machine, start your VMs running, then switch to ttyv0, and let
it
>> >> run for while? This is the only way I can get a clean crash dump and
>> >> generate any data -- I've never been able to "cleanly" crash my
system
>> >> running Xorg (it usually freezes).
>> >>
>> >> FYI, I'm running multiple VMs (Windows XP, 7), and I've experienced
>> >> "freezes" running multiple VMs since using VirtualBox (which despite
>> >> the lockups, I'm SOOOOO thankful to have on FreeBSD -- thanks again
to
>> >> all the VBox devs!!!!)...
>> >>
>> >> -Brandon
>> >
>> > Brandon,
>> >
>> > Mario Lobo and I have been working on this in the background and we
>> > found
>> > that multiple cpu support in Virtualbox appears broken. Any VM with
>> > more
>> > than 1 CPU will freeze.
>>
>> Interesting, however: each of my virtual machines only has 1 cpu...
>>
>> > Mario was also able to find that using unganged memory also confuses
>> > Virtualbox. He enabled that in his motherboard and Virtualbox became
>> > more stable.
>>
>> I'll have to check this out on the Dell 755 with 8 GBs of RAM I'm
>> running. Though, I don't recall seeing a setting for this in the BIOS.
>>
>> > I have been able to run 6 VM's at the same time, with compositing
>> > enabled, and 3D acceleration in the VM as well, all with 1 CPU per VM
>> > only.
>>
>> That's great! Are you getting 3D acceleration in Windows? How?
>>
>> Actually, I've had ZERO lockups since I started following 8-STABLE
>> (updating weekly), using the latest 64-bit NVIDIA drivers, and
>> installing the most recent VirtualBox port (3.1.6_3 from
>> emulation/virtualbox-ose, emulation/virtualbox-ose-kmod).
>>
>> Thanks for the information and suggestions!
>>
>> -Brandon
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>
> Just complementing Rusty's comments.
>
> As far as I know, this ganged/unganged thing is specific to Phenom
> processor.
>
> I too am following 8-STABLE/Nvidia BUT I am running the Vbox devel port
> because of the MAC support. I always have to adjust the code because
> VboxGlobal.cpp is checking for Xinerama, which compiles fine but when
> running
> it doesn't find any Xinerama functions, so I simply take it off the code
> and
> it runs fine, and I don't use or need Xinerama anyway.
It looks like this has already been fixed. Should not happen again with
the next devel port update.
http://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/28498
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Bernhard Fröhlich
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