I have also observed the same freezing behaviour of Arch Linux running in VitualBox 3.0.2 on my Mac. I'm also using a similar configuration: 2 CPU, IO APIC enabled.
It seems to be a bug! Regards Nik On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Giovanni Toraldo <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 06:25, Ken Lauffenburger<[email protected]> wrote: > > Are you saying that your system used to also lock up occasionally and > after > > you made a change now it is not? > > Not very occasionally, the best uptime was less than few hours: often > dmesg reports "Soft Lockup: CPU stuck for 60 seconds", if I remember > correctly. > > If can help, this is my actual configuration with Debian guest (cutted > with essential parts): > > ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <!-- Sun VirtualBox Machine Configuration --> > <VirtualBox xmlns="http://www.innotek.de/VirtualBox-settings"; > version="1.7-macosx"> > <Machine uuid="{a5a865b6-238c-44da-8287-7ae6a21ea7b5}" name="Debian" > OSType="Debian_64" lastStateChange="2009-08-02T17:49:55Z" > aborted="true"> > <Hardware> > <CPU count="2"> > <HardwareVirtEx enabled="true"/> > <HardwareVirtExNestedPaging enabled="true"/> > <PAE enabled="true"/> > </CPU> > <Memory RAMSize="1024"/> > <Display VRAMSize="128" monitorCount="1" accelerate3D="true"/> > <BIOS> > <ACPI enabled="true"/> > <IOAPIC enabled="true"/> > </BIOS> > <USBController enabled="true" enabledEhci="true"> > <DeviceFilter name="SanDisk U3 Cruzer Micro [0200]" > active="true" vendorId="0781" productId="5406" revision="0200" > manufacturer="" product="" serialNumber="" port="" remote="no"/> > </USBController> > <AudioAdapter controller="AC97" driver="CoreAudio" enabled="false"/> > <SharedFolders/> > <Clipboard mode="Disabled"/> > <Guest memoryBalloonSize="0" statisticsUpdateInterval="0"/> > <GuestProperties> > <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/OS/Product" > value="Linux" timestamp="1249235200990306000" flags=""/> > <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/OS/Release" > value="2.6.30-bpo.1-amd64" timestamp="1249235200990938000" flags=""/> > <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/OS/Version" > value="#1 SMP Sat Jul 18 14:08:10 UTC 2009" > timestamp="1249235200991326000" flags=""/> > <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/OS/LoggedInUsers" > value="0" timestamp="1249235381234721000" flags=""/> > <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/Net/Count" > value="1" timestamp="1249235381236311000" flags=""/> > <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/Net/0/V4/IP" > value="192.168.66.12" timestamp="1249235381236528000" flags=""/> > <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/Net/0/V4/Broadcast" > value="192.168.66.255" timestamp="1249235381236960000" flags=""/> > <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/Net/0/V4/Netmask" > value="255.255.255.0" timestamp="1249235381237119000" flags=""/> > <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/Net/0/Status" > value="Up" timestamp="1249235381244742000" flags=""/> > <GuestProperty > name="/VirtualBox/GuestAdd/Vbgl/Video/SavedMode" value="1248x744x32" > timestamp="1248721885256685000" flags=""/> > <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/OS/NoLoggedInUsers" > value="true" timestamp="1249235381235115000" flags=""/> > <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/HostInfo/GUI/LanguageID" > value="it_IT" timestamp="1249235168530842000" flags=""/> > </GuestProperties> > </Hardware> > <StorageControllers> > <StorageController name="IDE" type="ICH6" PortCount="2"> > <AttachedDevice type="HardDisk" port="0" device="0"> > <Image uuid="{4c112391-742c-4249-badb-a83ef84486c4}"/> > </AttachedDevice> > <AttachedDevice type="HardDisk" port="0" device="1"> > <Image uuid="{2e1ae0ca-cb78-4d97-90ca-99ae82ee17d1}"/> > </AttachedDevice> > </StorageController> > </StorageControllers> > </Machine> > </VirtualBox> > > > > -- > Giovanni "scorp" Toraldo > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users >
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