CFT: VirtualBox 3.2.0

[Bernhard Froehlich]

On Mon, 31 May 2010 11:01:04 +0900, Daichi GOTO <daichi at freebsd.org>
wrote:
> Memory leaks there I have noticed. Look at follow message of top(1):
> 
> [snip]
>
> I give 1GB mem for Guest OS(WinXP) of host mem 8GB. But VirtualBox
> consumes over 8GB and getting bigger by bigger, memory consumer.
> 
> Any ideas?

This could be the same memory leak a few others are seeing. It is a
problem of the 3.2.0 additions and also happens on Linux hosts. As a
workaround you can use the 3.1.8 additions and the vbox developers said it
will be fixed with 3.2.2.

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


> On 2010/05/30 21:28, Daichi GOTO wrote:
>> Thanks great work!
>>
>> Tested on fresh current machine and VirtualBox 3.2.0 (all
>> default options) working well.
>>
>> /home/daichi% uname -a
>> FreeBSD parancell.ongs.co.jp 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #19
>> r208649: Sun May 30 12:38:16 JST 2010
>> root at parancell.ongs.co.jp:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PARANCELL amd64
>> /home/daichi% ls /var/db/pkg/| grep virtualbox
>> virtualbox-ose-3.2.0
>> virtualbox-ose-kmod-3.2.0
>> /home/daichi%
>>
>> checked gest os:
>> Ubuntu 10.04
>> Windows 7/Vista/XP/Sefver 2008
>>
>>
>> On 2010/05/29 22:22, Beat Gaetzi wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The vbox@ team is happy to announce a call for tester for VirtualBox
>>> 3.2.0.
>>>
>>> The VirtualBox 3.2.0 changelog is available here:
>>> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
>>>
>>> Changes to the port:
>>> - VirtualBox and the guest additions have been updated to 3.2.0.
>>> - Add option to build with VNC support (Disabled by default)
>>> - Add option to build with VDE support (Disabled by default)
>>> - Add option to build webservice (Disabled by default)
>>> - Fix build with QT4 support disabled and X11 support enabled.
>>> - Replace custom pkg-install.in script with GROUPS framework.
>>> - Do not build Guest Additions in virtualbox-ose port.
>>> - Add patch to implement locking/unlocking of host DVD drive.
>>>
>>> You will find a tarball with the latest port version here:
>>> https://svn.bluelife.at/nightlies/virtualbox-port.tar.gz
>>>
>>> Please check the wiki page for known problems:
>>> http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox
>>>
>>> Please backup your virtual machines before upgrading and report any
>>> functionality which was working with previous versions of VirtualBox
and
>>> no longer working with 3.2.0, any build failures or problems with the
>>> newly added port options.
>>>
>>> Many thanks to the VirtualBox developers (especially Alexander Eichner
>>> for all his work and help), all tester and patch submitter and the
whole
>>> vbox@ team especially decke at .
>>>
>>> Beat, on behalf of vbox@
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