Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox + kernel panic 2.6.38-r2

2011-06-01 Thread James
There doesn't seem to be anything in the VBox.log that indicates the system had a hard lockup. I imagine the kernel panicing resulted in VirtualBox being unable to write to the log. Is anyone running VB on a Linux raid partition? I've logically narrowed down the issue to one of the following:

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox + kernel panic 2.6.38-r2

2011-06-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:44 AM, James j...@nc.rr.com wrote: There doesn't seem to be anything in the VBox.log that indicates the system had a hard lockup. I imagine the kernel panicing resulted in VirtualBox being unable to write to the log. Is anyone running VB on a Linux raid partition?

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox + kernel panic 2.6.38-r2

2011-06-01 Thread James
I'll get the error message and then post it here. I'm using Samsung drives that haven't seen any other problems under heavily utilization. What specific kernel version are you using? What version of vbox? -j On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 14:52, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 1,

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox + kernel panic 2.6.38-r2

2011-06-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:33 PM, James j...@nc.rr.com wrote: I'll get the error message and then post it here. I'm using Samsung drives that haven't seen any other problems under heavily utilization. What specific kernel version are you using? What version of vbox? -j The underlying

[gentoo-user] virtualbox + kernel panic 2.6.38-r2

2011-05-31 Thread James
Anyone having any problems with VirtualBox and kernel panics? I've tried vbox 3 and 4, both with the same behavior. Installing Windows 7 as a guest and either (a) my system will completely freeze (I'm assuming the kernel panicked), or (b) I'm thinking the Linux raid module dies because the system

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox + kernel panic 2.6.38-r2

2011-05-31 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-05-31 1:31 PM, James wrote: The only thing I've read online that may be applicable is that there have been some issues with kernel panics when you give the guest OS more than 1 processor. It would suck badly if SMP didn't work well on vbox. My understanding is it is a general rule

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox + kernel panic 2.6.38-r2

2011-05-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2011-05-31 1:31 PM, James wrote: The only thing I've read online that may be applicable is that there have been some issues with kernel panics when you give the guest OS more than 1 processor. It would suck badly

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox + kernel panic 2.6.38-r2

2011-05-31 Thread kashani
On 5/31/2011 12:11 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2011-05-31 1:31 PM, James wrote: The only thing I've read online that may be applicable is that there have been some issues with kernel panics when you give the guest OS more than 1 processor. It would suck badly if SMP didn't work well on vbox. My

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox + kernel panic 2.6.38-r2

2011-05-31 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 05/31/2011 01:31 PM, James wrote: Anyone having any problems with VirtualBox and kernel panics? I've tried vbox 3 and 4, both with the same behavior. Installing Windows 7 as a guest and either (a) my system will completely freeze (I'm assuming the kernel panicked), or (b) I'm thinking the

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox + kernel panic 2.6.38-r2

2011-05-31 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 31 May 2011 20:55:08 Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2011-05-31 1:31 PM, James wrote: The only thing I've read online that may be applicable is that there have been some issues with kernel panics when you give