You might want to send that to the VirtualBox guys.

On 17 Jun 2011 20:21, "Vitalie Vrabie" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> for those who feel very tough and are eager to reproduce this with any VM
solution, here are the steps:
>
> 1. create a fresh vm, give it 512m ram, 1 core 1 thread cpu, 20g hdd.
> 2. install ubuntu 11.04 in it, let it partition the hdd automagically (no
idea how much swap it allocates, probably 512m too).
> 3. (optional) run an update on ubuntu.
> 4. install all the required packages as described in
http://source.android.com/source/initializing.html
> 5. checkout froyo "-b froyo", as said in
http://source.android.com/source/downloading.html
> 6. try to compile, as described in
http://source.android.com/source/building.html
> 7. after about 8 hours on a xeon 2.4ghz you will end up with a frozen (not
really frozen, but as described by Jason Gerecke) ubuntu.
> 8. "power off" the VM.
> 9. start it again.
> 10. after some tine, ubuntu will try to update, but will fail *any*
attempt to manipulate the packages.
> 11. usually at this point enlightenment comes. :)
> 12. yes, we fit in under a dozen steps!
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Linux Box Solutions <
[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Use a paid for VM management system and not those crap free downloads and
you'll see the difference use something professional if you trying to do a
professionals job no something home users use to learn and experience from
>>
>> www.YouTube.com/user/linuxboxsolution
>> www.Krzyview.com
>> www.Email-Marketers.com
>>
>>
>> On Jun 17, 2011, at 1:37 PM, Jason Gerecke <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > I've actually been seeing similar issues under VirtualBox 4.0.8 r71778
>> > with a virtual quad-core 64-bit Ubuntu 11.04 guest and 64-bit Windows
>> > 7 host. However, in my case, the VM seems to kinda-freeze (its hard to
>> > describe -- the VM isn't locked up, but it doesn't really respond to
>> > most input) for no apparent reason. High memory pressure, or not; high
>> > CPU load or not. I haven't had a problem with other guests (Ubuntu
>> > 10.11, Arch Linux, RHEL6, etc) though to be honest I haven't been
>> > working with them as much recently...
>> >
>> > Since I have to reset the VM every-so-often, I've enabled full
>> > journaling on the VMs ext4 disks. Perhaps your package manager's files
>> > got corrupted when you reset the machine?
>> >
>> > Also, I'll mirror the comments that 512MB of RAM isn't going to be
>> > enough -- my VM was swapping up a storm when compiling with "-j4".
>> > Allocating 1 GB seemed to have solved the swapping issue, though the
>> > more the merrier.
>> >
>> > Jason
>> >
>> > ---
>> > Day xee-nee-svsh duu-'ushtlh-ts'it;
>> > nuu-wee-ya' duu-xan' 'vm-nvshtlh-ts'it.
>> > Huu-chan xuu naa~-gha.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Vitalie Vrabie
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> what can i say...
>> >> i really feel very happy this happened in a vm and not on my host os.
>> >> despite its age, linux is not mature enough to live outside VMs.
>> >> sad but true.
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Linux Box Solutions
>> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Agreed
>> >>>
>> >>> www.YouTube.com/user/linuxboxsolution
>> >>> www.Krzyview.com
>> >>> www.Email-Marketers.com
>> >>>
>> >>> On Jun 17, 2011, at 11:17 AM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Sounds like you're getting a little too emotional now.
>> >>> In a nutshell; Get some more RAM. You'll probably need 10+GB to give
8GB
>> >>> to the build.
>> >>> Beyond that I'm afraid to tell you your view of OSes, VMs, and what
should
>> >>> be and should happen is, unfortunately, unlikely to have any effect
on the
>> >>> situation.
>> >>> Enjoy,
>> >>>
>> >>> Al.
>> >>> --
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>> >>>
>> >>> The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not
>> >>> necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or
>> >>> it's subsidiaries.
>> >>> On 17 Jun 2011, at 16:14, Vitalie Vrabie wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> oh is it the vm?
>> >>> or rather this supposed-to-be os, which turns out to be just an
insult to
>> >>> humanity?
>> >>>
>> >>> no ram - fail the allocation, fail the compiling.
>> >>> but dont write swap over fs.
>> >>>
>> >>> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Al Sutton <[email protected]>
wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Because a Machine Emulators can have bugs, and running them low on
RAM
>> >>>> and Swap is never a good idea.
>> >>>> I ended up getting a refund from one vendor of a VM solution because
I
>> >>>> saw disk corruption every time a shut down particular VMs.
>> >>>> Al.
>> >>>> --
>> >>>> T: @alsutton W: www.funkyandroid.com
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not
>> >>>> necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or
>> >>>> it's subsidiaries.
>> >>>> On 17 Jun 2011, at 15:19, Vitalie Vrabie wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> not the case of this xeon.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> physical ram is 1.5G, vm is 512, lots of swap space in the vm, make
-j1
>> >>>>
>> >>>> still dont understand HOW A COMPILE PROCESS CAN MES UP THE PACKAGE
SYSTEM
>> >>>> OF UBUNTU. :(
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Al Sutton <[email protected]>
wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> 32 bit OSes can address more than 4GB using PAE (
>> >>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension ).
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Al.
>> >>>>> --
>> >>>>> T: @alsutton W: www.funkyandroid.com
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not
>> >>>>> necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or
it's
>> >>>>> subsidiaries.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> On 17 Jun 2011, at 15:06, Linux Box Solutions wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> No it doesn't a limitation of 32 bit systems is 4gb max
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> www.YouTube.com/user/linuxboxsolution
>> >>>>>> www.Krzyview.com
>> >>>>>> www.Email-Marketers.com
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> On Jun 17, 2011, at 10:03 AM, Alessandro Pellizzari <
[email protected]>
>> >>>>>> wrote:
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Il Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:53:37 +0300, Vitalie Vrabie ha scritto:
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> where've you seen 8g on 32bit???
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Linux 32bit supports 64 GB of RAM.
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Bye.
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