Call for testers: VirtualBox 3.1.4 update

[Sean C. Farley]

On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Rusty Nejdl wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:21:14 +0100, Bernhard Froehlich <decke at bluelife.at>
> wrote:
>> Grias di,
>>
>> we are preparing the VirtualBox 3.1.4 update to fix the vtophys 
>> problems with the current port on 9-CURRENT and STABLE kernels and 
>> need some feedback for this. Many thanks to all developers and 
>> testers that helped to track this issue down and Alexander Eichner 
>> for all the work and fixing it.
>>
>
> Bernhard,
>
> As with the previous version and this version, I continue to have 
> complete system freezes when using these machines.  The freezes seem 
> to occur during heavy disk usage (for example updating packages on 
> Ubuntu).  I am running:
>
> FreeBSD tethys.ringofsaturn.com 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Fri 
> Mar 12 10:39:31 CST 2010
> root at tethys.ringofsaturn.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SATURN  amd64
>
> Kernel is from 2 days ago.  I am using the NVIDIA Video driver.
>
> There is absolutely nothing in the logs anywhere when the freeze 
> happens and I have to hit the power button.
>
> Is anyone else seeing this and any suggestions on how to debug?

You could try to see if this Nvidia patch (195.22 driver) helps although 
it is for when X is shutdown: 
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=148622

Sean
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