Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.1.0

[Yuri]

On 08/07/2011 16:55, Yuri wrote:
> I ran Ubuntu 32bit and Ubuntu64 bit guests as test. Ran system updates 
> there.
>
> Troubling change: when guest is under heavy load 
> downloading/installing updates, it causes the internet radio 
> disruption playing as the 'mplayer' host process. It sounds exactly 
> like the needle skipping through the vinyl record tracks. (short 
> interruptions of the digital signal) This never happened before, with 
> or without the older VBox versions. Just in case this is useful, my 
> sound card driver is snd_es137x.ko.
>
> Also behavior of this old bug http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6314 
> changed. First time I tried, it said that it failed to start the 
> machine with the error "No error". The second time it actually worked 
> (!) and my old long dead Windows guest is alive again. It worked the 
> third and the fourth times too. I guess it is fixed now, maybe with a 
> possible caveat. But Windows guest also causes the above mentioned 
> troubling sound effect.

My guess is that 4.1.0 kernel module became heavier on CPU and this 
impacts sound. I keep seeing this. This is probably general vbox bug, 
not FreeBSD port one.

Could you also publish port directory for 4.1.0 virtualbox-ose?

I ran Android-2.2. It runs ok, but no sound. The reason is that VBox 
only has OSS option enabled (probably because your build has 
--disable-pulse) and Android only supports ALSA and PulseAudio (through 
patch).

Yuri