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Date:      Wed, 23 Sep 2015 13:50:45 +0200
From:      =?UTF-8?Q?Bernhard_Fr=C3=B6hlich?= <decke@bluelife.at>
To:        Mark Felder <feld@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VirtualBox mangles memory
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Am 23.09.2015 4:10 vorm. schrieb "Mark Felder" <feld@freebsd.org>:
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015, at 15:57, Michael Butler wrote:
> > On 09/22/15 16:20, Adam Vande More wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Martin Birgmeier <la5lbtyi@aon.at>
wrote:
> >
> > >> I am quite sure that the
> > >> cause is to be found there
> > >>
> > >
> > > I don't see any cause for surety in the info you have given us.  Have
you
> > > tried any basic steps like monitoring usage during these events or
running
> > > it under truss/valgrind etc to find out what is going on?
> > >
> >
> > Another data point ..
> >
> > I run it on -CURRENT and there have been a number of VM-related changes
> > of late but I don't have any problems with it.
> >
> > However, you *must* recompile (at least) the modules whenever the kernel
> > is rebuilt as they depend heavily on the underlying kernel structures,
> >
> >       imb
> >
>
> I agree. Just to be safe we really shouldn't provide packages for the
> virtualbox kmods. It's just asking for trouble.

No it's absolutely the right thing to provide them or as a package only
user on a release you would be screwed. As a STABLE or CURRENT user you
should never use any of them.



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