On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 17:37:39 +0200, Samuel Martín Moro <faus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > I'm trying to have a few BSD VMs (4.7, 5.5, 6.2, 7.2, 8.1) > running under VirtualBox-OSE / FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-amd64 > > > First problem: > Sometimes, when I start a VM, all other running VM stop, > their status switch to 'abort' (or whatever the > traduction is, here it's "avorté"). > Reading my /var/log/messages, I see a few > 'pid xxxx (VirtualBox), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space' > > I've got 8Gb of RAM, and so assumed I wouldn't need any swap. > Was I wrong? > Have I to reinstall my server to add some swap? > (and if so, how much?!)
Samuel, It is generally a bad idea not to have a swap partition. I have 12GB of memory and I even hit swap, though very little. [tethys]:/home/rnejdl> swapinfo -h Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity /dev/ada0s1b 4194304 4.5M 4.0G 0% I have 4GB on mine and that is plenty. I don't have answers for the below though. Sincerely, Rusty Nejdl > > > btw, my PC (home) have the same HWare (core i7 930, 8Gb DDR3) > I can run two 8.1-RELEASE (amd64 + i386), and two debian > while host is running compiz and all that gay stuff... > (ArchLinux x86_64) > > except VirtualBox, the server I'm having problems with, is > hosting some nfs shares and running ion2 (since VBoxVNC > segfaults... I need a WM). And that's it. > > > Second problem: > When I'm creating a disk (in VirtualBox), and while there's > some scp or so running on other guests, these guests display > some gvfs errors, about not finding ad0. > Sometimes, they just halt, and wait I pressed a key to reboot. > > > Third problem: > I already posted that on emulation this morning: > I can't boot FreeBSD-8.1-amd64. It's stuck in > 'md0: preloaded image </boot/mfsroot> x bytes 0xsomewhere' > nothing else happend... > > > I could have finished already if I just had installed a Linux > host in the first place... > I read so much posts recently, from FreeBSD/VBox users, saying > everything's working just fine. > I assumed it would be OK. > Obviously not... > > Is there some hope sticking with BSD? > (if I can get rid of the swap and the 8.1 problems, it would > be fine enough) > > > I'm seriously thinking on dropping that BSD idea, and choosing > some random linux to make it work... (and maybe, try xen...) > > > What should I do? > > Thanks for any advices. > > > Samuel Martín Moro > {EPITECH.} tek4 > CamTrace S.A.S > (+033) 1 41 38 37 60 > 1 Allée de la Venelle > 92150 Suresnes > FRANCE > > "Nobody wants to say how this works. > Maybe nobody knows ..." > Xorg.conf(5) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-emulat...@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-emulation-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"