New Virtualbox port (from today)

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Fri Sep 11 14:07:30 UTC 2009


Hi,

VirtualBox now works with VT and I'm able to run SMP guests!

But apparently it's not very stable (got two boot crashes) and something 
is wrong with timers:

Example 1: host HZ=250, guest HZ=1000, - guest time apparently speeds up 
more than it should

Example 2: same host, guest HZ=100 - guest time apparently goes 5x 
slower than real (wall) time.

Example 3: same host, guest HZ=25, guest time apparently 2x slower than 
real (wall) time.

In the examples, host is amd64 8-BETA2, 4CPU, guest is 7.2-RELEASE i386, 
2CPU.

Internally the time is always consistent - for example in the second 
case "time sleep 2" says the guest slept 2 seconds, while in real time, 
10 seconds have passed.

Time apparently goes normal when the guest is configured with only one 
CPU (and VT is still active).



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