Spontaneous Reboots with Virtualbox Kernel Modules

Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Tue Aug 10 23:09:17 UTC 2010


On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 03:38:03PM -0700, Chris Maness wrote:
> I have had two spontaneous reboots since I have began using
> virtualbox.  I have never had the issue before.  I just upgraded to
> 8.1 yesterday, so I will see if it happens again.
> 
> Has anyone else had crashes/reboots running these modules?

Yes, I've experiencing several on 8.0-RELEASE amd64. Since I was mostly using
it to play with other OSs, I de-installed virtualbox and haven't tried it since.

For virtual FreeBSD servers, jail(8) turned out to be a much better
alternative.

Roland
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