VirtualBox 4.0.12 + FreeBSD 7.4-STABLE causes server hangs ...

[Bernhard Froehlich]

On 08.11.2011 02:24, Hub- FreeBSD wrote:
> Has anyone experienced any issues where a server  hangs shortly after
> starting up a VirtualBox guest?  I don't have anything to go on for
> this … server seems to run fine up until I start up the guest OSs,
> shortly afterwards the server just hangs …
>
> No errors in /var/log/messages, nothing on the remote console, it
> just stops …
>
> This is with an Oct 26th 7.4-STABLE kernel … I saw the note on the
> wiki about VIMAGE causing hangs, but I'm not using VIMAGE, so that
> isn't it …
>
> These are 32bit OSs in the guest … I have three guests that I'm
> trying to run … right now, I've just started up the one to see if
> quantity makes a difference …
>
> I don't a serial console (remote server) that I can use to break into
> the debugger ...

You could try having a look at ~/VirtualBox VMs/<machine>/logs/VBox.log
and verify that the kernel module is build from the exact same sources
as your running kernel.

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Bernhard Fröhlich
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