Call for testers: VirtualBox 3.1.4 update

[Rusty Nejdl]

On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:53:05 +0100, Bernhard Froehlich <decke at bluelife.at>
wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:02:43 -0600, Rusty Nejdl
<rnejdl at ringofsaturn.com>
> wrote:
>> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:21:14 +0100, Bernhard Froehlich
> <decke at bluelife.at>
>> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>> 
>> 
>> Bernhard,
>> 
>> As with the previous version and this version, I continue to have
> complete
>> system freezes when using these machines.  The freezes seem to occur
> during
>> heavy disk usage (for example updating packages on Ubuntu).  I am
> running:
>> 
>> FreeBSD tethys.ringofsaturn.com 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Fri
> Mar
>> 12 10:39:31 CST 2010    
>> root at tethys.ringofsaturn.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SATURN  amd64
>> 
>> Kernel is from 2 days ago.  I am using the NVIDIA Video driver.
>> 
>> There is absolutely nothing in the logs anywhere when the freeze
happens
>> and I have to hit the power button.
>> 
>> Is anyone else seeing this and any suggestions on how to debug?
> 
> Sorry for the long delay.
> 
> Could you try to use the nv driver? Because there are some known
> instabilities with the nvidia driver and vbox.

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