On 6/8/2010 3:14 PM, Hubert Tournier wrote:
Hello,
I noticed that FreeBSD guests (either i386 or amd64, release 7.x or 8.x,
even freshly installed from the install CD) running in VirtualBox (3.1.4 to
3.2.2) on FreeBSD hosts (only tested on 8.0pX amd64, but on 4 machines with
different hardware) panic during the boot sequence, just after the "Starting
cron" message, and enter an endless loop of reboots:
http://old.nabble.com/file/p28823754/panic1.png
The same VMs work fine on VirtualBox (any version) on a Windows XP guest,
and used to work on VirtualBox 3.1.2 on a FreeBSD host.
I can boot a blank VM with the FreeBSD install CD and proceed with
installation, but the problem occurs during the first reboot of the
installed system.
I've no troubles with VM guests using Linuxes (CentOS, Ubuntu, Red Hat) or
Windows (XP, 2008).
are these all 32 bit systems?
With some additional debug messages, i've seen that the problem happens in
/etc/rc.d/mixer:
http://old.nabble.com/file/p28823754/panic2.png
So, i put a mixer_enable="NO" in /etc/rc.conf and was able to complete the
boot sequence.
Unfortunately, a few commands later, even doing a simple "ls", the VM panics
again.
I tried with a generic kernel instead of a custom one, and an unmodified
VirtualBox port, but got the same results.
Any idea? Are there other people encountering this?
Best regards,
Hubert
PS: if needed, i can provide root access to an Internet server where the
problem happens, to the vbox team.
PPS: i haven't filed a PR for this, but can do if wanted.
I have FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE guest running under VirtualBox 3.1.6-OSE on
FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE i386 32 bit (built from the April 27th cvs) on a dual
Xeon 2.0Ghz (total of 4 cores in the system) running on an Intel
Server motherboard. This uses a dual set of Seagate 250GB PATA disks
running on a FreeBSD ata software RAID. The 5.5 guest runs a billing
software called billmax.
Besides Vbox this server runs apache2, mysql5, mod perl, mod ssl, vnc
server, xrdp, the latest X, python, php4, icradius, HaCi and netdot,
plus a couple hundred other dependent programs that support all of
that. And I'm even looking to load more crap on it.
Never had a single problem with it. I love it, it's my favorite server.
And I even have a copy of rogue running on it.
Ted
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