On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 13:58:16 +0300, m irya wrote: > 2011/8/4 Bernhard Froehlich <de...@freebsd.org>: >> I think we found the cause of the issue. Could you please throw this >> patch in emulators/virtualbox-ose/files/ and rebuild the port? And then >> please try to reproduce the problem without enabling Host I/O caching. >> >> http://home.bluelife.at/patches/patch-src-VBox-Runtime-r3-freebsd-fileaio-freebsd.cpp >> >> The patch is still untested so please be careful. >> >> -- >> Bernhard Froehlich >> http://www.bluelife.at/ >> > > Back with the test results: > 1) w/o the patch and Host I/O caching for SATA off: Ubuntu-LTS > crashes on boot > 2) w/o the patch and Host I/O caching on: works (so the source of the > problem is correct) > 3) with the patch and caching off: works (so the patch somehow makes > it better) > > Now i'm proceeding with another test case: installing Win7 Home Basic: > 1) w/o the patch and caching off: VBox dies on early installation stage > 2) w/ the patch and caching off: proceeds further, but still dies at a > random point of time while copying files
Could you please also generate a stacktrace for this case? I also know a few Windows 7 crashes that are not related to i/o but happen if you enable more than 1 vCPU. So you are probably hitting another bug or some other async i/o bug. > 3) w/ the patch and caching on: finally installed > > i'll do more testing with debug enabled next week. Thanks a lot for your feedback! -- Bernhard Fröhlich http://www.bluelife.at/ _______________________________________________ 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"