CFT: VirtualBox 3.2.0

[Brandon Gooch]

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Mario Lobo <lobo at bsd.com.br> wrote:
> On Monday 31 May 2010 15:14:01 Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
>> On Mon, 31 May 2010 09:05:47 -0400, Michael Butler
>>
>> <imb at protected-networks.net> wrote:
>> > On 05/31/10 04:55, Anton Berezin wrote:
>> >> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:01:04AM +0900, Daichi GOTO wrote:
>> >>> Memory leaks there I have noticed. Look at follow message of top(1):
>> >>
>> >> I also experience memory leaks.  WinXP guest, amd64-CURRENT (from
>> >> 2010-05-10) host.  100% CPU load when the guest is doing nothing, and
>> >> memory
>> >> usage keeps growing at a rather alarming pace.
>> >
>> > Just an observation - this appears to be related to using the additions
>> > from 3.2.0. Using VBox 3.2.0 with the 3.1.8 additions doesn't appear to
>> > display the leak - no idea what triggers this behaviour,
>>
>> I've just talked to the virtualbox developers and this is obviously an
>> known bug in the 3.2.0 additions. As a workaround you can use the 3.1.8
>> additions and they said it will be fixed with 3.2.2.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
> Actually, this problem doesn't happen up to
> VBoxGuestAdditions_3.2.0_BETA1.iso.
>
> VBoxGuestAdditions_3.2.0_BETA2.iso and newer do have it.

I can confirm this. For the record.

-Brandon