VirtualBox: Eating up 100% CPU, freezing Windows 7

[Doug Barton]

On 08/04/2012 17:56, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 08/04/2012 14:26, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>> On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 08/04/2012 00:40, O. Hartmann wrote:
>>>>> No, also in my case. I build world and the VBox software with each
>>>>> kernel - usually.
>>>>
>>>> You can ensure that by putting this in src.conf:
>>>>
>>>> PORTS_MODULES=  emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod
>>>>
>>>> You can place other modules in that list as well. I use vbox so you can
>>>> be pretty confident that this is going to keep working. :)
>>>
>>>     That doesn't work
>>
>> I assure you that it does. I have put a non-zero amount of work into
>> fixing it, I use this method, and the resulting kernel module works just
>> fine.
>>
>> If you actually try it and find something is not as it should be, then
>> yes; please do file a PR and feel free to cc me.
>>
>> Doug
> 
> I am only aware of this because of your posts. No reference to it at
> all in src.conf(5). It would be nice to see it there.

It's in make.conf(5) for historical reasons, along with a lot of other
options that should be moved.

> It is mentioned in build(7), but only as a MAKE option and a lot of
> people are not going to realize it can be placed in src.conf.

It can also go in make.conf, so that's not a total loss I suppose.

> Also,
> for those not fairly conversant in make, it is not clear whether
> multiple ports should be space, comma, colon, or otherwise delimited
> 
> This is a very nice option as it is very easy to overlook rebuilding
> kernel modules in ports when building the kernel. Thanks or working on
> it.

My pleasure ... it was one of those things on "the list" and I finally
got around to it.

Doug

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