VirtualBox and vtophys

Gary Jennejohn gary.jennejohn at freenet.de
Wed Feb 24 13:43:58 UTC 2010


On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:41:31 +0200
Jacques Fourie <jacques.fourie at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've noticed that my virtualbox vboxdrv.ko started crashing after
> updating my 8.0-stable install. The crash occurs when vboxdrv calls
> vtophys() on a userland virtual address. Prior to r202894 this was
> working fine. Modifying pmap_kextract() to use vtopte() for non-kernel
> virtual adresses fixes the problem. Is it intended for vtophys() to
> still work on userland virtual addresses?
>

This was recently (yesterday and today) discussed on freebsd-emulation with
subject Virtualbox.

See there for suggested actions.

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Gary Jennejohn


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