From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 8 00:14:34 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01C1C1065670 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2011 00:14:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Received: from shell0.rawbw.com (shell0.rawbw.com [198.144.192.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E16C68FC08 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2011 00:14:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eagle.yuri.org (stunnel@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by shell0.rawbw.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p77Nt2xK000865; Sun, 7 Aug 2011 16:55:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Message-ID: <4E3F25D5.6020307@rawbw.com> Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 16:55:01 -0700 From: Yuri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110716 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bernhard Froehlich References: <87a2d6a337080961760c5da503c0a9e0@bluelife.at> In-Reply-To: <87a2d6a337080961760c5da503c0a9e0@bluelife.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.1.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:14:34 -0000 I ran Ubuntu 32bit and Ubuntu64 bit guests as test. Ran system updates there. Troubling change: when guest is under heavy load downloading/installing updates, it causes the internet radio disruption playing as the 'mplayer' host process. It sounds exactly like the needle skipping through the vinyl record tracks. (short interruptions of the digital signal) This never happened before, with or without the older VBox versions. Just in case this is useful, my sound card driver is snd_es137x.ko. Also behavior of this old bug http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6314 changed. First time I tried, it said that it failed to start the machine with the error "No error". The second time it actually worked (!) and my old long dead Windows guest is alive again. It worked the third and the fourth times too. I guess it is fixed now, maybe with a possible caveat. But Windows guest also causes the above mentioned troubling sound effect. That's all I tested. I also have DTrace enabled in kernel that wasn't enabled before. Not sure if this matters for VirtualBox. I think it shouldn't. Yuri