New Virtualbox port (from today)

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On Fri, September 11, 2009 11:07, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Hi,
>
> VirtualBox now works with VT and I'm able to run SMP guests!
>
> But apparently it's not very stable (got two boot crashes) and something
> is wrong with timers:

in my testes, I never got so far as a boot when using any 8.x

> Example 1: host HZ=250, guest HZ=1000, - guest time apparently speeds up
> more than it should
>
> Example 2: same host, guest HZ=100 - guest time apparently goes 5x
> slower than real (wall) time.
>
> Example 3: same host, guest HZ=25, guest time apparently 2x slower than
> real (wall) time.
>
> In the examples, host is amd64 8-BETA2, 4CPU, guest is 7.2-RELEASE i386,
> 2CPU.

I tried on a quite close system. intel or amd yours ?

maybe its time to try again. my system was built from scratch. any
particular tip ?

matheus

> Internally the time is always consistent - for example in the second
> case "time sleep 2" says the guest slept 2 seconds, while in real time,
> 10 seconds have passed.
>
> Time apparently goes normal when the guest is configured with only one
> CPU (and VT is still active).
>
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