On Apr 6, 2010, at 3:04 PM, Bayard Bell wrote: > I've had ongoing problems with hangs and then watchdog panics in xnu > deadlocks with VBox 3.1.4 and 3.1.6 (trac ticket 5783). The debug data I've > been able to gather doesn't appear to be of much use (other than having the > OS X panic reporter claim that it's VirtualBoxVM processes triggering the > kernel deadlock), as the stack trace doesn't contain any symbolic information.
Using tstLdr-3, the address and filename in the "Loaded VMMR0.r0" line from VBox.log, and the stack addresses from the panic I find that we're probably in pgmDynMapFlushAutoSetWorker calling RTSpinlockAcquire when we panic. I don't know why this happens yet, but we've got a lead now... > I'm trying to my machine moved from OS X to OpenSolaris to resolve other > issues (including some difficult to debug packet loss on traffic between the > host and guests) and am hoping this will be resolved in the process, but this > depends on more mature OS X guest support, where there's not much clarity on > when that will be delivered. > This is already getting much much better, so you might want to try build the current SVN or wait for the beta to become available. -- Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, Knut -- Sun Microsystems GmbH Knut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24 Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:[email protected] ================================================== Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Thomas Schroeder, Wolfgang Engels Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering ================================================== _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
