Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:27:15 +0000 From: Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com> To: Rusty Nejdl <rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for testers: VirtualBox 3.1.4 update Message-ID: <g2u179b97fb1004201227jae47800ap89dae2fd5135739a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4b07050d225cdbfae1b8988e923ed68e@ringofsaturn.com> References: <b125726c2b23907bc4a2dc547ca8e091@bluelife.at> <fd4ce82182342faafbeb99786e4e425f@ringofsaturn.com> <9eef43b1f473e1b6c10fee14ac3f4733@bluelife.at> <b9c74f26c9721208b18132cd465490f2@ringofsaturn.com> <179b97fb1003271835i2f41b7e8yaa7ba337e5c662db@mail.gmail.com> <4b07050d225cdbfae1b8988e923ed68e@ringofsaturn.com>
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On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Rusty Nejdl <rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com> wrot= e: > >>> >>> Bernard, >>> >>> I tested today with the latest NVIDIA for x64 and it ran for a couple > of >>> hours without a freeze. =A0But, it still froze. =A0 I'm running 4 VM's = now >>> for >>> a couple of hours with NV driver without issue. =A0It sounds like I nee= d >>> to >>> report this up to Zander with Nvidia unless you have any other >>> suggestions. >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> Rusty Nejdl >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> "freebsd-emulation-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >> >> Hey man, would it be possible for you to enable debugging options on >> your machine, start your VMs running, then switch to ttyv0, and let it >> run for while? This is the only way I can get a clean crash dump and >> generate any data -- I've never been able to "cleanly" crash my system >> running Xorg (it usually freezes). >> >> FYI, I'm running multiple VMs (Windows XP, 7), and I've experienced >> "freezes" running multiple VMs since using VirtualBox (which despite >> the lockups, I'm SOOOOO thankful to have on FreeBSD -- thanks again to >> all the VBox devs!!!!)... >> >> -Brandon > > Brandon, > > Mario Lobo and I have been working on this in the background and we found > that multiple cpu support in Virtualbox appears broken. =A0Any VM with mo= re > than 1 CPU will freeze. > Interesting, however: each of my virtual machines only has 1 cpu... > Mario was also able to find that using unganged memory also confuses > Virtualbox. =A0He enabled that in his motherboard and Virtualbox became m= ore > stable. I'll have to check this out on the Dell 755 with 8 GBs of RAM I'm running. Though, I don't recall seeing a setting for this in the BIOS. > I have been able to run 6 VM's at the same time, with compositing enabled= , > and 3D acceleration in the VM as well, all with 1 CPU per VM only. That's great! Are you getting 3D acceleration in Windows? How? Actually, I've had ZERO lockups since I started following 8-STABLE (updating weekly), using the latest 64-bit NVIDIA drivers, and installing the most recent VirtualBox port (3.1.6_3 from emulation/virtualbox-ose, emulation/virtualbox-ose-kmod). Thanks for the information and suggestions! -Brandon
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