Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 09:33:28 -0500 From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bernhard=20Fr=F6hlich?= <decke@bluelife.at> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VirtualBox mangles memory Message-ID: <1443018808.889430.391539601.64FBB01B@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <CAE-m3X1JpvAJnWLdYLaxPfi6gZdjQ%2BjBsWPVG=2xjB6cjMbETQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <55FE9662.7000406@aon.at> <1442866256.1127084.389759513.29E96282@webmail.messagingengine.com> <56017026.6040809@aon.at> <CAE-m3X1eZww8FGu1kTmUwn7dyQNXjXySgHO=WRsGEbJKvWL=AA@mail.gmail.com> <5601AB71.9000003@aon.at> <CA%2BtpaK1w=KM93roeecF30Gvgva_sofGCwuDGOWn44y2O2L5x9Q@mail.gmail.com> <5601C0B8.4000905@protected-networks.net> <1442974232.1611559.391070321.7F761DD4@webmail.messagingengine.com> <CAE-m3X1JpvAJnWLdYLaxPfi6gZdjQ%2BjBsWPVG=2xjB6cjMbETQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2015, at 06:50, Bernhard Fr=F6hlich wrote: > 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. Ha= ve > 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 chang= es > > > of late but I don't have any problems with it. > > > > > > However, you *must* recompile (at least) the modules whenever the ker= nel > > > 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. >=20 > 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. We don't build for every RELEASE. We always build with the oldest supported version in that release train. Right now all packages for 10.2 users are being built on 10.1-RELEASE. This is bad for virtualbox users. Beware of the dragon, etc etc. --=20 Mark Felder ports-secteam member feld@FreeBSD.org
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