FreeBSD 8.3

2012-07-14 Thread Mike Meyer
I just set up a system designed to handle lots of VBox VM's: a 6-core SandyBridge processor with 32GB of ram on a FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE host. Unfortunately, once I got it set up, I found that VBox guest performance simply sucks. The *mouse* isn't responsive. Linux guests see lots of CPU Locked

Re: FreeBSD 8.3

2012-07-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
SandyBridge processor with 32GB of ram on a FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE host. i am using virtualbox but no linux guest, only windows. the newest CPU i have is CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31220 @ 3.10GHz (3100.03-MHz K8-class CPU) Unfortunately, once I got it set up, I found that VBox guest

Re: FreeBSD 8.3

2012-07-14 Thread Mike Meyer
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 19:56:22 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31220 @ 3.10GHz (3100.03-MHz K8-class CPU) If that the one normally listed as E3-1220? If so, it's a Sandy Bridge processor. If not, then I have not idea what it is.

Re: FreeBSD 8.3

2012-07-14 Thread Jason Hellenthal
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 06:11:41AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: I just set up a system designed to handle lots of VBox VM's: a 6-core SandyBridge processor with 32GB of ram on a FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE host. Unfortunately, once I got it set up, I found that VBox guest performance simply sucks. The

Re: FreeBSD 8.3

2012-07-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31220 @ 3.10GHz (3100.03-MHz K8-class CPU) If that the one normally listed as E3-1220? If so, it's a Sandy Bridge yes. processor. If not, then I have not idea what it is. so it is. it have working AES-NI. I

Re: FreeBSD 8.3

2012-07-14 Thread Mike Meyer
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 20:27:11 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: would have asked about that. My problem is sucky virtualbox performance, on any guest that has VT-X emulation enabled (which means all 64 bit guests). i would rather bet on linux addon kernel

Re: FreeBSD 8.3

2012-07-14 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Mike Meyer wrote: I just set up a system designed to handle lots of VBox VM's: a 6-core SandyBridge processor with 32GB of ram on a FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE host. Unfortunately, once I got it set up, I found that VBox guest performance simply sucks. The *mouse* isn't responsive.

Re: FreeBSD 8.3

2012-07-14 Thread Mike Meyer
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:13:50 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Mike Meyer wrote: Can you give a specific Linux version that has problems? I'm willing to download and test it on this i5/9-stable/amd64 system. Haven't noticed any problems, but I only

Re: FreeBSD 8.3

2012-07-14 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Mike Meyer wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:13:50 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Mike Meyer wrote: Can you give a specific Linux version that has problems? I'm willing to download and test it on this i5/9-stable/amd64 system. Haven't

Re: FreeBSD 8.3

2012-07-14 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Mike Meyer m...@mired.org wrote: 64-bit Ubuntu LTS 12.04. I moved a VM from the previous system, where it worked fine (same build of FreeBSD, same build of VirtualBox). The OS seems to be irrelevant. Windows XP and 7 and mumble all have this problem, *if* I

Re: FreeBSD 8.3

2012-07-14 Thread Doug Barton
For the OP, make sure you have the latest BIOS. I had a similar problem with vt-x and it was solved by a later BIOS upgrade. hth, Doug -- Change is hard. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD 8.3

2012-07-14 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Warren Block wrote: In a VM with stock settings (Linux 64-bit), Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Desktop Live CD works okay, installed also seems to work okay. The mouse is a little draggy but usable, like using a wireless mouse. kern.hz is set to 100 on the host (9-stable, er

Re: FreeBSD 8.3

2012-07-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i would rather bet on linux addon kernel modules you have to install. Are you talking about the guest additions? They're already installed (on a VM that was running on an older Core 2 CPU). Performance sucks. something must be wrong with linux interacting with virtualbox. Won't help you as i

Re: FreeBSD 8.3

2012-07-14 Thread Bernhard Fröhlich
On Sa., 14. Jul. 2012 12:11:41 CEST, Mike Meyer m...@mired.org wrote: I just set up a system designed to handle lots of VBox VM's: a 6-core SandyBridge processor with 32GB of ram on a FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE host. Unfortunately, once I got it set up, I found that VBox guest performance simply

Interesting facts about AI_ADDRCONFIG

2012-07-14 Thread Zhihao Yuan
Hi, hackers: FreeBSD's AI_ADDRCONFIG flag used by getaddrinfo(3) is regarded as broken: https://wikispaces.psu.edu/display/ipv6/IPv6+programming#IPv6programming-AIADDRCONFIGflag The short reason is that it still queries for both A and even one of them is not configured. The