JFYI: VirtualBox stable/unstable setteings +nvidia amd64 (3.1.2
OSE - GOOD NEWS) - The freeze is GONE ! [was: JFYI:
VirtualBox stable/unstable setteings (3.0.51.r22902)]
Mario Lobo
lobo at bsd.com.br
Sun Jan 24 14:58:14 UTC 2010
On Wednesday 23 December 2009 02:29:33 Daichi GOTO wrote:
>> In a month, I have been tried to investigate FreeBSD system
>> stable/unstable situations and factors around VirtualBox
>> bacause frequently my VirtualBox let FreeBSD freeze, panic
>> and fatal trap.
[Snip.]
> What I have found out in all the time I've been testing is that, at least on
> my system here, the problem with VBox/Nvidia IS definitely with OpenGL.
> If I leave the KDE composite option as XRENDER, I can open up to 6 VMs
> without any freeze. All of them with 2 CPUs, 3D accel enabled an all. But
> all I need to do to freeze the machine is to start ANY OpenGL app and let it
> run for about a minute. It can even be one of the GL screensavers. It is a
> guarantied freeze !
> I have tried all sorts of combinations: nvidia.ko last, vboxdrv.ko last, no
> linux.ko, with powerd, no powerd, etc..., etc... No matter what, if it
> involves OpenGL, bang !! if it doesn't, it's OK.
Sorry for the long subject !.
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Machine:
OS: FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0 r198930M: Sat Dec 12 12:49:49 BRT 2009
MB: AOD790GX/128M
VB: nvidia0: <GeForce 9800 GT> on vgapci0
RAM: 8 G
CPU: Phenom 955 black
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
(II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 195.22 Mon Nov 30 14:03:12 posix/SystemV/PST
2009
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
X: X.Org X Server 1.6.1
KDE: 4.3.4 with OpenGl composite enabled
VBOX: 3.1.2 OSE
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Stability is back!. No more host freezes !
I found out that compiling the nvidia driver WITHOUT the linux_emulation
option did it! The instability and freeze issue with vbox+openGL active is
GONE!
As you can see on attached image, I have started:
2 XP
1 Win7 32
1 Win7 64
2 Win 2003
1 Fedora
Plus a few other kde apps.
Before doing this, if I started only one of the win7 VM, my host would
freeze!.
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Mario Lobo
http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br
FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99,7% winfoes FREE)
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