Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Lets grant that the VirtualBox modules are not up to LKML standards. > That's fine, very little out of the tree is. I'm willing to bet that > the majority of the issues are silly bugs involving pointer arithmetic > (the usual cause of these

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:51:19 -0800 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 3:21 AM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:17:07 +0100 > > Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > > > >> The 22/11/11, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> > >> > I use virtualbox and it's the one I recommend. > >> > > >> >

[gentoo-user] Re: A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-11-23, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Wed, November 23, 2011 12:06 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:29:23 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> What I like about VBox is that you get all the useful bits in the >>> open-source version. >> >> Except USB support. > > Huh? The last t

[gentoo-user] Re: A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 23/11/11, J. Roeleveld wrote: > I also got "random memory corruption" when compiling large packages with > simple kernel configurations and no "out-of-tree" modules present on the > system. > > Do you have any evidence to proof that this randomness is actually caused > by VB modules and not s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 3:21 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:17:07 +0100 > Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > >> The 22/11/11, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> > I use virtualbox and it's the one I recommend. >> > >> > The kernel modules are no better and no worse than any other >> > out-of-tr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, November 23, 2011 1:59 pm, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > The 23/11/11, Joseph Davis wrote: >> I agree a list of issues, just broad ones, would be helpful. >> >> I am interested in VMs, so knowing which ones have what problems, >> and my own needs, would be help me make a good choice. >> >> Plea

[gentoo-user] Re: A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 23/11/11, Joseph Davis wrote: > I agree a list of issues, just broad ones, would be helpful. > > I am interested in VMs, so knowing which ones have what problems, > and my own needs, would be help me make a good choice. > > Please, disparage with details! ;-) I've already said "random memory

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread Joseph Davis
I agree a list of issues, just broad ones, would be helpful. I am interested in VMs, so knowing which ones have what problems, and my own needs, would be help me make a good choice. Please, disparage with details! ;-) Thanks - Joseph Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: The 23/11/11, Alan McKinnon wrote:

[gentoo-user] Re: A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 23/11/11, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:17:07 +0100 > Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > > You're wrong. Using the virtualbox module means you turn the kernel to > > "tained crap" because of the number of problems it causes, including > > random memory curruption. > > Care to back tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:17:07 +0100 Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > The 22/11/11, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > I use virtualbox and it's the one I recommend. > > > > The kernel modules are no better and no worse than any other > > out-of-tree modules. > > You're wrong. Using the virtualbox module mean

[gentoo-user] Re: A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 22/11/11, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I use virtualbox and it's the one I recommend. > > The kernel modules are no better and no worse than any other > out-of-tree modules. You're wrong. Using the virtualbox module means you turn the kernel to "tained crap" because of the number of problems it c