Call for testers: VirtualBox 3.1.4 update

[Bernhard Froehlich]

On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:02:43 -0600, Rusty Nejdl <rnejdl at ringofsaturn.com>
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?

Sorry for the long delay.

Could you try to use the nv driver? Because there are some known
instabilities with the nvidia driver and vbox.

-- 
Bernhard Fröhlich
http://www.bluelife.at/