Virtualbox

[Giovanni Trematerra]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Ian FREISLICH <ianf at clue.co.za> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Has anyone managed to make Virtualbox work on 9-Current?  Since
> installing 3.1.2-OSE VMs, all brand new, abort on startup.
>
> The last part of the log seems pertinent:
>
> 00:00:15.481 !!Assertion Failed!!
> 00:00:15.481 Expression: paPages[i].Phys != 0 && paPages[i].Phys != NIL_RTHCPHYS && !(paPages[i].Phys & PAGE_OFFSET_MASK)
> 00:00:15.481 Location  : /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose/work/VirtualBox-3.1.2_OSE/src/VBox/VMM/MMHyper.cpp(610) int MMR3HyperMapPages(VM*, void*, RTR0PTR, size_t, const SUPPAGE*, const char*, RTGCPTR64*)
> 00:00:15.482 i=0x0 Phys=0000000000000000 Heap
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>

Hi Ian,
Are your arch i386?
There should be a bug in virtualbox-ose-kmod driver (vboxdrv to be precise).
vboxdrv passes to vtophys kernel macro, user virtual addresses instead
of kernel ones.
Without debug compilation you should experience freeze or reboot of
the host machine.

--
Gianni