From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 8 03:13:08 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79EB4106564A for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 03:13:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from smtpauth04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (smtpauth04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [64.202.165.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4FC078FC14 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 03:13:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 21211 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2011 03:13:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (71.164.218.188) by smtpauth04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.95) with ESMTP; 08 Feb 2011 03:13:07 -0000 Message-ID: <4D50B485.1040007@computer.org> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:12:05 -0600 From: Eric Schuele User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090904) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Vande More References: <4D4DF58D.2040506@computer.org> <4D4F644F.1040006@computer.org> <4D4F65A2.1040802@computer.org> <4D4FDE6E.9050301@computer.org> In-Reply-To: <4D4FDE6E.9050301@computer.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 OpenPGP: url=http://www.ravenlock.us/keys/pub_schuele.pgp Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigC2BF84D3522D5654A9A0D23E" Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: 8.2 prerelease, virtualbox, and windows guests that freeze... [Solved] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 03:13:08 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigC2BF84D3522D5654A9A0D23E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 02/07/2011 05:58, Eric Schuele wrote: > On 02/06/2011 22:02, Adam Vande More wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Eric Schuele = wrote: >> >>> Ok... found the logs. :) >>> Looks as if each machine has 4 log files, and that the set of files i= s >>> from the last run. Anything in there I could post to help diagnose? >>> >> Let's see what's in the most recent log of an affected VM. If you hav= e any >> funky options like page fusion enabled disable them. >=20 > After looking in the logs I found an error. :) > "AIOMgr: Error happened " >=20 > This led me to an open issues in VirtualBox's bug tracker. The propose= d > work around is to either *enable* th "Use Host I/O cache" on your > virtualized SATA disks, or just use virtualized IDE disks. I am testin= g > this now. >=20 > Will let you know how it turns out. Thanks guys! I've had my VMs running longer this evening than before. I'm gonna call this one fixed. For the archives, here is the VirtualBox bug report I was referring to that mentions the host I/O cache. http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/7363 Thanks. >=20 >> What the output of gstat(8) and top(1) look like when you reach this >> degraded state? >> >> >=20 >=20 --=20 Regards, Eric --------------enigC2BF84D3522D5654A9A0D23E Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk1QtIUACgkQngSDRM3IXUpCaACeNRCYCinHTjR/mE+58nuR3GAj G58AnRChNACtCBz+9f7iwP66+Iyov3jQ =f5PX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigC2BF84D3522D5654A9A0D23E--