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Date:      Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:19:39 +0200
From:      Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de>
To:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kernel panic with VirtualBox on -CURRENT
Message-ID:  <20090617171939.68593ea0@ernst.jennejohn.org>
In-Reply-To: <24674fb7530b3f03994906959dbca019.squirrel@cygnus.homeunix.com>
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On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:38:25 -0300 (BRT)
"Nenhum_de_Nos" <matheus@eternamente.info> wrote:

> 
> On Wed, June 17, 2009 10:33, Ivan Voras wrote:
> > Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
> >> On Wed, June 17, 2009 04:33, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:23:31 -0400
> >>> Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com> wrote:
> >
> >>> Also, did you enable virtualization in the BIOS?  I had to do that
> >>> before AMD-V really functioned.  It made quite a bit of difference
> >>> in performance.
> >>
> >> yet on this topic. vbox in FreeBSD is just working on i386 current ?
> >> (the
> >> page says so). I got it running on 7.2-STABLE amd64 quite ok ( some
> >> crashes here and then), but never on amd64 from current ...
> >
> > Works with basic functionality on amd64 on CURRENT but hardware support
> > gor "VT-x" and such doesn't work.
> 
> this would explain why I got a crash on fresh 8-current and amd-v ?
> if so, good to know. I thought it was my bad.
> 
> also, my 7.2-STRABLE crashes every now and then (mostly I can boot the vm
> only once, then need do reboot physical machine) to fire the vm again.
> 
> using vm and 4 cpu's, if this is relevant. debian 5.0 amd64 on guest.
> 
> thanks,
> 

It seems to work for me with -current and AMD-V, as should be obvious from my
original post.  But maybe I only imagine that it works?  In any case, I have
3 virtual machines running without errors.

I'm running from virtualbox_6.tgz, not the port in the tree.

Someone falsely attributed my post to Adam K Kirchhoff.

---
Gary Jennejohn



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