VirtualBox mangles memory

[Mark Felder]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015, at 15:57, Michael Butler wrote:
> On 09/22/15 16:20, Adam Vande More wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Martin Birgmeier <la5lbtyi at aon.at> wrote:
> 
> >> I am quite sure that the
> >> cause is to be found there
> >>
> > 
> > I don't see any cause for surety in the info you have given us.  Have you
> > tried any basic steps like monitoring usage during these events or running
> > it under truss/valgrind etc to find out what is going on?
> > 
> 
> Another data point ..
> 
> I run it on -CURRENT and there have been a number of VM-related changes
> of late but I don't have any problems with it.
> 
> However, you *must* recompile (at least) the modules whenever the kernel
> is rebuilt as they depend heavily on the underlying kernel structures,
> 
> 	imb
> 

I agree. Just to be safe we really shouldn't provide packages for the
virtualbox kmods. It's just asking for trouble.


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  Mark Felder
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