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Date:      Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:25:28 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New Virtualbox port (from today)
Message-ID:  <h8l5m9$ul6$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <f7a8306c42b522ca8313524fbf6a284e.squirrel@cygnus.homeunix.com>
References:  <h8dlih$ksm$1@ger.gmane.org> <f7a8306c42b522ca8313524fbf6a284e.squirrel@cygnus.homeunix.com>

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Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
> On Fri, September 11, 2009 11:07, Ivan Voras wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> VirtualBox now works with VT and I'm able to run SMP guests!
>>
>> But apparently it's not very stable (got two boot crashes) and something
>> is wrong with timers:
> 
> in my testes, I never got so far as a boot when using any 8.x
> 
>> Example 1: host HZ=250, guest HZ=1000, - guest time apparently speeds up
>> more than it should
>>
>> Example 2: same host, guest HZ=100 - guest time apparently goes 5x
>> slower than real (wall) time.
>>
>> Example 3: same host, guest HZ=25, guest time apparently 2x slower than
>> real (wall) time.
>>
>> In the examples, host is amd64 8-BETA2, 4CPU, guest is 7.2-RELEASE i386,
>> 2CPU.
> 
> I tried on a quite close system. intel or amd yours ?

Intel.

> maybe its time to try again. my system was built from scratch. any
> particular tip ?

No, nothing unusual or specially configured, except HZ.




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