VirtualBox - no screen refresh

[Bernhard Fröhlich]

On Thu, July 23, 2009 4:41 pm, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
> Hi
>
> Bernhard, can you provide an idea how to dig non-working refresh for
> me ?
>
> It works fine on virtualbox5 and virtualbox6 archives, but when I've
> upgraded some time ago using port from tree it (screen refresh) does not
> work for me any more.

The stacktrace you posted at the beginning of the thread looks like a
locking problem and i have already talked to Alexander Eichner about that
but he hasn't seen that problem yet and first needs to figure out what is
going wrong there.

Sorry, but i guess i can't help you much more than that.


-- 
Bernhard Fröhlich
http://www.bluelife.at/


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> От: Bernhard Fröhlich <decke at bluelife.at>
> Кому: Nenhum_de_Nos <matheus at eternamente.info>
> Копия: freebsd-emulation at freebsd.org
> Тема: Re: VirtualBox - no screen refresh
> Дата: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:14:30 +0200 (CEST)
>
> On Thu, July 23, 2009 2:02 am, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, July 22, 2009 20:15, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, July 21, 2009 05:58, Bernhard Fröhlich wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> I got it running here. tested the last svn rev today. i got so much
>>> happy
>>> I installed debian and got both cpu to full load. a while after I
>>> looked
>>> and my box was frozen :(
>>>
>>> so now on small steps. I have now two cpu and VT-x enabled. it looks
>>> good
>>> so far. but I know when I fire folding at home, using both cpu is no
>>> good
>>> anymore.
>>> I'll let it this way for a while to see if it freezes, and then will
>>> try
>>> one cpu and full load.
>>>
>>> this is work, so I'll try to reproduce this at home, using 8-beta and
>>> post
>>> here.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>
>> slight change of plans. I did run the single core test first. 40 minutes
>> full load and ok.
>>
>> I'll run both cores and a single core full load to see.
>>
>
> Sounds good so far. Could you please also try to copy something in the VM
> around? Would be interesting if that causes the crash.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
> vova at fbsd.ru