On Mon, 31 May 2010 11:01:04 +0900, Daichi GOTO <dai...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Memory leaks there I have noticed. Look at follow message of top(1): > > [snip] > > I give 1GB mem for Guest OS(WinXP) of host mem 8GB. But VirtualBox > consumes over 8GB and getting bigger by bigger, memory consumer. > > Any ideas?
This could be the same memory leak a few others are seeing. It is a problem of the 3.2.0 additions and also happens on Linux hosts. As a workaround you can use the 3.1.8 additions and the vbox developers said it will be fixed with 3.2.2. -- Bernhard Froehlich http://www.bluelife.at/ > On 2010/05/30 21:28, Daichi GOTO wrote: >> Thanks great work! >> >> Tested on fresh current machine and VirtualBox 3.2.0 (all >> default options) working well. >> >> /home/daichi% uname -a >> FreeBSD parancell.ongs.co.jp 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #19 >> r208649: Sun May 30 12:38:16 JST 2010 >> r...@parancell.ongs.co.jp:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PARANCELL amd64 >> /home/daichi% ls /var/db/pkg/| grep virtualbox >> virtualbox-ose-3.2.0 >> virtualbox-ose-kmod-3.2.0 >> /home/daichi% >> >> checked gest os: >> Ubuntu 10.04 >> Windows 7/Vista/XP/Sefver 2008 >> >> >> On 2010/05/29 22:22, Beat Gaetzi wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> The vbox@ team is happy to announce a call for tester for VirtualBox >>> 3.2.0. >>> >>> The VirtualBox 3.2.0 changelog is available here: >>> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog >>> >>> Changes to the port: >>> - VirtualBox and the guest additions have been updated to 3.2.0. >>> - Add option to build with VNC support (Disabled by default) >>> - Add option to build with VDE support (Disabled by default) >>> - Add option to build webservice (Disabled by default) >>> - Fix build with QT4 support disabled and X11 support enabled. >>> - Replace custom pkg-install.in script with GROUPS framework. >>> - Do not build Guest Additions in virtualbox-ose port. >>> - Add patch to implement locking/unlocking of host DVD drive. >>> >>> You will find a tarball with the latest port version here: >>> https://svn.bluelife.at/nightlies/virtualbox-port.tar.gz >>> >>> Please check the wiki page for known problems: >>> http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox >>> >>> Please backup your virtual machines before upgrading and report any >>> functionality which was working with previous versions of VirtualBox and >>> no longer working with 3.2.0, any build failures or problems with the >>> newly added port options. >>> >>> Many thanks to the VirtualBox developers (especially Alexander Eichner >>> for all his work and help), all tester and patch submitter and the whole >>> vbox@ team especially de...@. >>> >>> Beat, on behalf of vbox@ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> "freebsd-emulation-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-emulation-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
