Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:11:43 +0200 From: Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at> To: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for testers: VirtualBox 3.1.4 update Message-ID: <2648ad86a213021a12aaa2ffcab2c9bc@bluelife.at> In-Reply-To: <201004201742.01578.lobo@bsd.com.br> References: <b125726c2b23907bc4a2dc547ca8e091@bluelife.at> <4b07050d225cdbfae1b8988e923ed68e@ringofsaturn.com> <g2u179b97fb1004201227jae47800ap89dae2fd5135739a@mail.gmail.com> <201004201742.01578.lobo@bsd.com.br>
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On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:42:01 +0000, Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> wrote: > On Tuesday 20 April 2010 19:27:15 Brandon Gooch wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Rusty Nejdl <rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com> > wrote: >> >>> Bernard, >> >>> >> >>> I tested today with the latest NVIDIA for x64 and it ran for a couple >> > >> > of >> > >> >>> hours without a freeze. But, it still froze. I'm running 4 VM's >> >>> now >> >>> for >> >>> a couple of hours with NV driver without issue. It sounds like I >> >>> need >> >>> 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. Any VM with >> > more >> > 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. He enabled that in his motherboard and Virtualbox became >> > more 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> 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" >> > > Just complementing Rusty's comments. > > As far as I know, this ganged/unganged thing is specific to Phenom > processor. > > I too am following 8-STABLE/Nvidia BUT I am running the Vbox devel port > because of the MAC support. I always have to adjust the code because > VboxGlobal.cpp is checking for Xinerama, which compiles fine but when > running > it doesn't find any Xinerama functions, so I simply take it off the code > and > it runs fine, and I don't use or need Xinerama anyway. It looks like this has already been fixed. Should not happen again with the next devel port update. http://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/28498 -- Bernhard Fröhlich http://www.bluelife.at/
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