Call for testers: VirtualBox 3.1.4 update
Bernhard Froehlich
decke at bluelife.at
Fri Mar 26 08:07:27 UTC 2010
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:19:39 +0300, "Alexander Zagrebin" <alexz at 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)
We have created a virtualbox bugreport for that and it has been fixed in
3.1.6 which was released yesterday. The FreeBSD port update for 3.1.6
should appear soon in our testing repository.
http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6379
Thanks for the report.
--
Bernhard Fröhlich
http://www.bluelife.at/
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-emulation at freebsd.org
>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-emulation at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of
>> Bernhard Froehlich
>> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 1:21 PM
>> To: freebsd-emulation at 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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