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Date:      Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:20:02 -0500
From:      Rusty Nejdl <rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com>
To:        "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Call for testers: VirtualBox 3.1.4 update
Message-ID:  <20100315002002.GA2178@tethys.ringofsaturn.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1003141419350.62884@thor.farley.org>
References:  <b125726c2b23907bc4a2dc547ca8e091@bluelife.at> <fd4ce82182342faafbeb99786e4e425f@ringofsaturn.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1003141419350.62884@thor.farley.org>

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Sean C. Farley(scf) wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Rusty Nejdl wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:21:14 +0100, Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at>
> >wrote:
> >>Grias di,
> >>
> >>we are preparing the VirtualBox 3.1.4 update to fix the vtophys 
> >>problems with the current port on 9-CURRENT and STABLE kernels and 
> >>need some feedback for this. Many thanks to all developers and 
> >>testers that helped to track this issue down and Alexander Eichner 
> >>for all the work and fixing it.
> >>
> >
> >Bernhard,
> >
> >As with the previous version and this version, I continue to have 
> >complete system freezes when using these machines.  The freezes seem 
> >to occur during heavy disk usage (for example updating packages on 
> >Ubuntu).  I am running:
> >
> >FreeBSD tethys.ringofsaturn.com 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Fri 
> >Mar 12 10:39:31 CST 2010
> >root@tethys.ringofsaturn.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SATURN  amd64
> >
> >Kernel is from 2 days ago.  I am using the NVIDIA Video driver.
> >
> >There is absolutely nothing in the logs anywhere when the freeze 
> >happens and I have to hit the power button.
> >
> >Is anyone else seeing this and any suggestions on how to debug?
> 
> You could try to see if this Nvidia patch (195.22 driver) helps although 
> it is for when X is shutdown: 
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=148622
> 
> Sean
> -- 
> scf@FreeBSD.org

Sean,

It was a good idea but this still did not work.  The other thing I have seen
with this version is that desktop integration doesn't work so my mouse is
trapped in the VM and I have to the ctrl key to unrelease it.

Sincerely,
Rusty Nejdl



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