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. >> >>> -- >> >>> 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 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??? 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