VirtualBox - no screen refresh

[Nenhum_de_Nos]

On Fri, July 24, 2009 15:51, Boris wrote:
> I built the world and recompiled with revision 430 and I can start 32-bit
> VM
> without VT-x selected. I do not have a system crash anymore.
>
> I still cannot start 32-bit nor 64-bit VM while VT-x is checked. I got an
> error message. I have read it's not supported and the opposite throughout
> different threads.
>
> Can anybody confirm what is really supported at the moment?

as I'm not a dev from this project, I can say what I tested and was ok :)

> - 32-bit VM without VT-x ? OK for me
OK
> - 32-bit VM with VT-x?
> - 64-bit VM with VT-x ?
OK for some things using 7.2-STABLE and rev 428.

what's the major diff from 428 and 430 ?

thanks,

matheus

> Thanks,
>
> Boris
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Boris <borisbsd at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> No luck for me. I have recompiled my kernel with the latest from CVS (I
>> noticed the pmap.c version 1.665 previous I used was 1.664).
>> I recompiled virtualbox rev427 as well.
>>
>> VirtualBox starts but whenever I launch a VM the system crashes just
>> after
>> hitting the start button, with and without VT-x enabled.
>>
>> Worse thing is the memory dump does not complete so I have got no trace
>> to
>> analyse.
>>
>> Vladimir,
>>
>> Could you confirm a few things for me please?
>>
>> - did you upgrade from 7.2 to 8-CURRENT? or did you do a fresh install
>> from
>> snapshot?
>>
>> - I am using a customer kernel, I noticed you do it as well. Could you
>> post
>> a diff -ruN GENERIC VBOOK for me please?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Boris
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Nenhum_de_Nos
>> <matheus at eternamente.info>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.
>>>
>>> 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
>>> ?
>>>
>>> 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
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> We will call you cygnus,
>>> The God of balance you shall be
>>>
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>>>
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We will call you cygnus,
The God of balance you shall be

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style