Call for testers: VirtualBox 3.1.4 update

[Brandon Gooch]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Rusty Nejdl <rnejdl at ringofsaturn.com> wrote:
> 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
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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