Call for testers: VirtualBox 3.1.4 update

[Mario Lobo]

On Wednesday 21 April 2010 07:11:43 Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:42:01 +0000, Mario Lobo <lobo at bsd.com.br> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 April 2010 19:27:15 Brandon Gooch wrote:
> >> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Rusty Nejdl <rnejdl at ringofsaturn.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> >> >>> Bernard,
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I tested today with the latest NVIDIA for x64 and it ran for a
> 
> couple
> 
> >> > of
> >> >
> >> >>> hours without a freeze.  But, it still froze.   I'm running 4 VM's
> >> >>> now
> >> >>> for
> >> >>> a couple of hours with NV driver without issue.  It sounds like I
> >> >>> need
> >> >>> to
> >> >>> report this up to Zander with Nvidia unless you have any other
> >> >>> suggestions.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Sincerely,
> >> >>> Rusty Nejdl
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> >> >>
> >> >> Hey man, would it be possible for you to enable debugging options on
> >> >> your machine, start your VMs running, then switch to ttyv0, and let
> 
> it
> 
> >> >> run for while? This is the only way I can get a clean crash dump and
> >> >> generate any data -- I've never been able to "cleanly" crash my
> 
> system
> 
> >> >> running Xorg (it usually freezes).
> >> >>
> >> >> FYI, I'm running multiple VMs (Windows XP, 7), and I've experienced
> >> >> "freezes" running multiple VMs since using VirtualBox (which despite
> >> >> the lockups, I'm SOOOOO thankful to have on FreeBSD -- thanks again
> 
> to
> 
> >> >> all the VBox devs!!!!)...
> >> >>
> >> >> -Brandon
> >> >
> >> > Brandon,
> >> >
> >> > Mario Lobo and I have been working on this in the background and we
> >> > found
> >> > that multiple cpu support in Virtualbox appears broken.  Any VM with
> >> > more
> >> > than 1 CPU will freeze.
> >>
> >> Interesting, however: each of my virtual machines only has 1 cpu...
> >>
> >> > Mario was also able to find that using unganged memory also confuses
> >> > Virtualbox.  He enabled that in his motherboard and Virtualbox became
> >> > more stable.
> >>
> >> I'll have to check this out on the Dell 755 with 8 GBs of RAM I'm
> >> running. Though, I don't recall seeing a setting for this in the BIOS.
> >>
> >> > I have been able to run 6 VM's at the same time, with compositing
> >> > enabled, and 3D acceleration in the VM as well, all with 1 CPU per VM
> >> > only.
> >>
> >> That's great! Are you getting 3D acceleration in Windows? How?
> >>
> >> Actually, I've had ZERO lockups since I started following 8-STABLE
> >> (updating weekly), using the latest 64-bit NVIDIA drivers, and
> >> installing the most recent VirtualBox port (3.1.6_3 from
> >> emulation/virtualbox-ose, emulation/virtualbox-ose-kmod).
> >>
> >> Thanks for the information and suggestions!
> >>
> >> -Brandon
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> >
> > Just complementing Rusty's comments.
> >
> > As far as I know, this ganged/unganged thing is specific to Phenom
> > processor.
> >
> > I too am following 8-STABLE/Nvidia BUT I am running the Vbox devel port
> > because of the MAC support. I always have to adjust the code because
> > VboxGlobal.cpp is checking for Xinerama, which compiles fine but when
> > running
> > it doesn't find any Xinerama functions, so I simply take it off the code
> > and
> > it runs fine, and I don't use or need Xinerama anyway.
> 
> It looks like this has already been fixed. Should not happen again with
> the next devel port update.
> 
> http://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/28498
> 

That's great to hear, Bernhard !

I still owe you a reply but new discoveries happened since I wrote you, that I 
want to comment on in detail.

Hopefully I will still find some time to do it today.
-- 
Mario Lobo
http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br
FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99,7% winfoes FREE)