VirtualBox - no screen refresh

[Bernhard Fröhlich]

On Mon, July 20, 2009 10:33 pm, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
>
> On Mon, July 20, 2009 14:47, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>>> I got Revision 427 compiled on amd64 unfortunately it crashes at the
>>> time of
>>> launching any VM. I have provided some details to Beat and pointed at
>>> this
>>> thread as the issue looked similar to Vladimir's one when reading the
>>> core.txt file produced after the system crash.
>>
>> It does not crash any more with very recent kernel.
>> So, probably you may do another try.
>
> I have here:
> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD xxx 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #1: Wed Jun 17 15:30:47 BRT 2009
>     root at xxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/xxx  amd64
>
> and got to boot debian 5 amd64 cd and right now I'm quite at the end of
> the install. this is just possible using just one cpu. when tried using
> two cpu's, somewhere before disk selection it dies.

Did the install finish successfully or did the vm crash? Because with
7.2-RELEASE/amd64 i have spotted a problem which crashes the VM after a
few minutes with I/O activity. I couldn't fully install Arch Linux nor
Windows7 yet.


> my goal is to run a linux amd64 with as much cores I can (goal is all 4)
> running folding at home (cpu intense app).
>
> I read about 3.0 lets us use VT-x and run multicore ok, anyone tested this
> ?

VT-x is not yet working on FreeBSD.

> thanks and great work on vbox and freebsd !! the port compiles fine in
> here. I just recompiled vbox. would be a good idea to recompile all ?
>
> matheus
>
>> Only issue I have - no screen refresh, and it kills whole thing for me.
>>
>>> Let's see what comes back from Beat and the folks porting the port to
>>> FreeBSD.
>>>
>>> Boris
>>
>> --
>> Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
>> vova at fbsd.ru


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