8.2 prerelease, virtualbox, and windows guests that freeze...

[Mario Lobo]

On Sunday 06 February 2011 13:09:47 Eric Schuele wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion, however,  I've already tried this (sorta).
> From my original post...
> 
> >> I did try a windows guest on a non fuse filesystem just to rule that
> >> out, but had same issue.
> 
> I suppose it may have been a little less than clear.  By "non fuse
> filesystem"  I actually meant UFS.  The problem still persisted.
> 

> > NTFS file systems on FreeBSD or even Linux are OK only for doing small
> > r/w stuff. I use the ntfs-3g which is really good but don't trust NTFS
> > for heavy usage under those OSs. Sometimes it's not even trustable under
> > windows itself.
> 

My bad!. Sorry!. But it seems that you're right. Looks like the issue is not 
the FS then.

If you're building from the ports, try the svn version from:

https://svn.bluelife.at/index.cgi/blueports

It's already version 4.0.2 there.


> I realize NTFS on fBSD has been shaky in the past, but had heard it had
> come a long way these days.  It does seem to work well for all my
> purposes, except these VMs.  Had hoped NTFS was not the issue.


> 
> I've not tried the EXT IFS for windows yet, nor had I heard much
> regarding their success or failure.  If your willing to go out on a limb
> and say "very good drivers for any version of 32/64 windows"...  I'll
> give it a try, and post my results.  :)
> 


Forgive me if it sounded "on a limb". Didn't mean to look like that. The only 
reason I mentioned it is because it's exactly the way I've been using. I have 
triple boot system. BSD AMD64, XP32 and Win7 64 and the IFS driver works 
flawlessly on both windows, and all 3 Vboxes accessing the same VDIs. Because 
of that, I believe I may have got carried away by saying "any win version".

regards,

-- 
Mario Lobo
http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br
FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99% winblows FREE)