On 04/30/2012 02:33 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
> Neat. Random guess, but it could be a bug in Bulldozer's memory 
> controller or IOMMU. Try disabling IOMMU support in your kernel?
> 
> On Apr 29, 2012 3:29 PM, "Markos Chandras" <hwoar...@gentoo.org 
> <mailto:hwoar...@gentoo.org>> wrote:
> 
> On 04/28/2012 01:24 AM, Matthew Marlowe wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Markos Chandras
> <hwoar...@gentoo.org <mailto:hwoar...@gentoo.org>> wrote:
>>> On 04/27/2012 11:45 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>>> On 27/04/12 22:35, Markos Chandras wrote:
>>>>> I replaced my Phenom II cpu with a new 6-core AMD
>>>>> bulldozer.
> However, I
>>>>> noticed that all of my Gentoo virtual machines throw
>>>>> (compiler) segmentation faults when building or running any
>>>>> application.
>>>> 
>> 
>> I'm not familiar with virtualbox, but I've seen similar issues
>> occur with vmware and the solution was to at least temporarily
>> mask whatever new cpu flags the new hypervisor was passing to the
>> guest.  In vmware, one could limit the cpu flags to maintain
>> compatibility with various cpu releases which was especially
>> helpful in clusters.... Yes, your gentoo vms should have been
>> fine ..but at least until you track down the issue, see if
>> virtualbox has a similar feature?
>> 
> Interestingly this seems to be caused when using my wireless card
> to bridge the virtualbox interfaces onto. I can't reproduce (yet)
> any segfaults when I use the onboard ethernet card. I have the
> following wireless card (supported by the rtl8180 kernel module)
> 
> 04:06.0 Ethernet controller: Belkin F5D7000 v7000 Wireless G
> Desktop Card [Realtek RTL8185] (rev 20)
> 
> -- Regards, Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID:
> B4AFF2C2
> 
AMD IOMMU (Device Drivers -> Hardware IOMMU ) makes no difference. I
will have to move the discussion to virtualbox forums/ML as this seems
a driver or virtualbox problem. Bridge networking on that wireless
card work flawlessly when using Windows 7 as host.

-- 
Regards,
Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2

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