Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 13:58:16 +0300 From: m irya <xmirya@gmail.com> To: Bernhard Froehlich <decke@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VirtualBox/fbsd9/amd64 + Ubuntu11.04 guest = crash on install Message-ID: <CAK8LArO_uL6p_Q68jaKkMjtaQTxS52PufuXBWTHMvHM6DkOuXQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ea20b3765fb2bb0b6cd827132bac7d84@bluelife.at> References: <CAK8LArNYCJJ9b9%2BKjaKiw_GV7kjR7oy7aAdJ7ce9Re4AO8x90w@mail.gmail.com> <427080d79cbe9c9bf25538540d9acb7b@bluelife.at> <CAK8LArO_TRH34y4r8FdyZjuO8V_UZ9sasLbfTKdnn1Z2_ZR7FA@mail.gmail.com> <c7127f3f98bbd2de2bb3abb10833912d@bluelife.at> <ea20b3765fb2bb0b6cd827132bac7d84@bluelife.at>
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2011/8/4 Bernhard Froehlich <decke@freebsd.org>: > I think we found the cause of the issue. Could you please throw this > patch in emulators/virtualbox-ose/files/ and rebuild the port? And then > please try to reproduce the problem without enabling Host I/O caching. > > http://home.bluelife.at/patches/patch-src-VBox-Runtime-r3-freebsd-fileaio-freebsd.cpp > > The patch is still untested so please be careful. > > -- > Bernhard Froehlich > http://www.bluelife.at/ > Back with the test results: 1) w/o the patch and Host I/O caching for SATA off: Ubuntu-LTS crashes on boot 2) w/o the patch and Host I/O caching on: works (so the source of the problem is correct) 3) with the patch and caching off: works (so the patch somehow makes it better) Now i'm proceeding with another test case: installing Win7 Home Basic: 1) w/o the patch and caching off: VBox dies on early installation stage 2) w/ the patch and caching off: proceeds further, but still dies at a random point of time while copying files 3) w/ the patch and caching on: finally installed i'll do more testing with debug enabled next week.
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