On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Rusty Nejdl <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> >>> Bernard, >>> >>> I tested today with the latest NVIDIA for x64 and it ran for a couple > of >>> hours without a freeze. But, it still froze. I'm running 4 VM's now >>> for >>> a couple of hours with NV driver without issue. It sounds like I need >>> to >>> report this up to Zander with Nvidia unless you have any other >>> suggestions. >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> Rusty Nejdl >>> _______________________________________________ >>> [email protected] mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> "[email protected]" >>> >> >> Hey man, would it be possible for you to enable debugging options on >> your machine, start your VMs running, then switch to ttyv0, and let it >> run for while? This is the only way I can get a clean crash dump and >> generate any data -- I've never been able to "cleanly" crash my system >> running Xorg (it usually freezes). >> >> FYI, I'm running multiple VMs (Windows XP, 7), and I've experienced >> "freezes" running multiple VMs since using VirtualBox (which despite >> the lockups, I'm SOOOOO thankful to have on FreeBSD -- thanks again to >> all the VBox devs!!!!)... >> >> -Brandon > > Brandon, > > Mario Lobo and I have been working on this in the background and we found > that multiple cpu support in Virtualbox appears broken. Any VM with more > than 1 CPU will freeze. >
Interesting, however: each of my virtual machines only has 1 cpu... > Mario was also able to find that using unganged memory also confuses > Virtualbox. He enabled that in his motherboard and Virtualbox became more > stable. I'll have to check this out on the Dell 755 with 8 GBs of RAM I'm running. Though, I don't recall seeing a setting for this in the BIOS. > I have been able to run 6 VM's at the same time, with compositing enabled, > and 3D acceleration in the VM as well, all with 1 CPU per VM only. That's great! Are you getting 3D acceleration in Windows? How? Actually, I've had ZERO lockups since I started following 8-STABLE (updating weekly), using the latest 64-bit NVIDIA drivers, and installing the most recent VirtualBox port (3.1.6_3 from emulation/virtualbox-ose, emulation/virtualbox-ose-kmod). Thanks for the information and suggestions! -Brandon _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
