There doesn't seem to be anything in the VBox.log that indicates the system had a hard lockup. I imagine the kernel panicing resulted in VirtualBox being unable to write to the log.
Is anyone running VB on a Linux raid partition? I've logically narrowed down the issue to one of the following: (a) I've read that network driver(s) have caused some hard lockups on the host...I'm using bridged mode (b) there are some strange messages that appear when the VM is started (regarding misaligned sectors or something like that); I can't seem to find the messages right now, however. I believe md was the one logging the errors; maybe this has something to do with the hard lockup? (c) SMP has probably been ruled out; I have two 4-core Intel 5570s; the system is under no load whatsoever. In fact, the last two kernel panics occurred during Windows installation. Any other thoughts on how to troubleshoot this? -james On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 01:17, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 31 May 2011 20:55:08 Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> > wrote: >> > On 2011-05-31 1:31 PM, James wrote: >> >> The only thing I've read online that may be applicable is that there >> >> have been some issues with kernel panics when you give the guest OS >> >> more than 1 processor. It would suck badly if SMP didn't work well on >> >> vbox. >> > >> > My understanding is it is a general rule that you never give any VM more >> > than one processor, regardless of which vm hypervisor you are running... >> >> My platform is a Gentoo i7-980 Extreme processor so I have 12 CPUs (6 >> cores * 2 for hyperthreading) >> >> In Virtualbox I'm running both Gentoo and Win 7 VMs, each allocated 4 >> processors. In Win 7 I have one app that uses everything it can find >> so when it's running all 4 processors are 100% utilized. In Linux I >> see the CPU usage at 33%. Win 7 is sluggish when this app is running >> as it hogs from the system >> >> In VMWare Player I'm running Win XP VMs with 2 processors. None of my >> apps in XP use more than 1 processor. XP itself is quite responsive >> even when these apps are using 1 of the 2 processors dedicated the the >> VM. >> >> I seldom run more than 1 app in any Windows VM as I don't trust >> Windows. I've not had any problems with any of these VMs that I'd >> associate with using multiple cores. >> >> And yes, I do own these Windows licenses. VMs keep that money useful >> until some day some Linux apps come along that do what these do for me >> in Windows. > > A bit OT I guess, but what apps are you using that do not have a Linux > alternative Mark? Answer off list if you wish so we do not hijack the thread. > > -- > Regards, > Mick >
