Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:49:51 -0500
From:      Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com>
To:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, enrico@majaglug.net
Subject:   Re: Patch to fix VirtualBox with recent kernel versions
Message-ID:  <4B8D177F.8090707@voicenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <201003021359.38127.enrico@majaglug.net>
References:  <215745.35399.qm@web27602.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>	<1267522633.3221.2.camel@Prometheus>	<4B8CFD31.2080805@voicenet.com> <201003021359.38127.enrico@majaglug.net>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 03/02/2010 07:59 AM, Enrico M. wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 March 2010 12:57:37 Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
>    
>> On 03/02/10 04:37, Alexander Eichner wrote:
>>      
>>> Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
>>>        
>>>> I'm sorry to say, but I'm getting the exact same Assertion Failed error
>>>> as before with this new patch.  The only difference this time is that
>>>> i=0x7 instead of i=0x4.
>>>>
>>>> Adam
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list
>>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation
>>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to
>>>> "freebsd-emulation-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
>>>>          
>>> That's not good. Everything works just fine here now on a 32bit FreeBSD
>>> 8.0 host. Can you give some information of your host (RAM, CPU, ...) and
>>> the guest configuration please? Do you have any special kernel options
>>> set?
>>>        
>> I've been testing on two 32-bit installations.  I was using a custom
>> kernel on both, but I just tried with GENERIC on one of them and the
>> crash of VirtualBox still happens.  Both machines have 2 gigs of RAM,
>> one with 3 gigs of swap and one with 2 gigs of swap.  Both are running
>> -CURRENT from 6 days ago.
>>
>> One machine:
>>
>> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz (3191.87-MHz 686-class CPU)
>>     Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf64  Stepping = 4
>>
>>   Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,M
>> CA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>>   Features2=0xe43d<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,CNXT-ID,CX16,xTPR,PDCM>  AMD
>>   Features=0x20100000<NX,LM>
>>     AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
>>     TSC: P-state invariant
>> real memory  = 2147483648 (2048 MB)
>> avail memory = 2084831232 (1988 MB)
>>
>> And the other:
>>
>> CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad  CPU   Q8200  @ 2.33GHz (2327.49-MHz
>> 686-class CPU)
>>     Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x10677  Stepping = 7
>>
>>   Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,M
>> CA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>>
>> Features2=0x8e39d<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,SSE4.
>> 1>  AMD Features=0x20100000<NX,LM>
>>     AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
>>     TSC: P-state invariant
>> real memory  = 2147483648 (2048 MB)
>> avail memory = 2085683200 (1989 MB)
>>
>> The Xeon supports AMD-V, but it doesn't matter if I enable that in the
>> acceleration configuration of the VM or not.
>>
>> On both machines I have tested the same Windows XP guest.  Base memory
>> is 512 MB, 1 CPU.  The video memory is set at 64 megs.  On one of the
>> machines I have also tried Ubuntu.  128 megs of RAM, 1 CPU, 12 megs of
>> video memory.  3D acceleration is disabled on both machines.
>>
>> The XML config file for the guest is here: http://pastebin.com/Qaqx7gTi
>>
>> I'm actually installing -CURRENT amd64 to a spare USB drive I have on
>> the Xeon and can test to confirm that it works there since you believe
>> this to be a problem only with 32-bit FreeBSD.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>      
> I've got the same problem with FreeBSD 8 STABLE on athlonx-xp 2500+,
> motherboard Abit NF7-S, 2GB ram, 1Gb swap, ZFS.
> I tried with custom and generic kernel, but the situation doesn't change.
> I tried running in virtual machine a windows guest and a freebsd guest. No
> difference: the system reboot automatically after few seconds
>
>    

Except that's not the same problem.  My system doesn't reboot.  
VirtualBox just fails to start the guest.

Adam





Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4B8D177F.8090707>