From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QRrCf-0003HL-8R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:35:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1761C1C1B9; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 19:34:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vx0-f181.google.com (mail-vx0-f181.google.com [209.85.220.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC61F1C1B9 for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 19:34:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vxb39 with SMTP id 39so141863vxb.40 for ; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:34:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=MHd+3dz5xMisy1A0VjGORMSThE8hHL0UPcAswKxFviU=; b=aCWwTr2fUnkhUfgV57GgLC+f1cG/nwrJ3NIvB7+ha7WNlAjcReTgBhd0xgtAFlhXNA fH7NGhsG820yt/qUw6FmC28Ssbj7b+sdxHINCufsIsT5a8wW+0RNHHnmqaN9ajLu7R/M 9OmxU9xnQsUgjfzv7k0bZ3q3icdpoYv/wZPTU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; b=KZpiLOFP32SGwAaRo0xNtJrS7r7mbbszzBjldgcsgwisxX/llF7yAOZlXbZVGqeO2V 6GeQc9LyhJ34lgv5kjKCB/4aaXQOURlFFaNPMM5fjLkVmZBIOrXlHGvdyWOhRGcpWf5M fYSqcyfIhTVeqV9tf6udUdLv6zW7YyOBQAV5o= Received: by 10.52.108.101 with SMTP id hj5mr2609992vdb.247.1306956855118; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:34:15 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: jz.penguin@gmail.com Received: by 10.220.190.199 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 12:33:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4DE53D70.9040000@libertytrek.org> <201106010617.11273.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> From: James Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 15:33:55 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Wn8ygLAzp2lVo2EvrMaTtEP0L1c Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox + kernel panic 2.6.38-r2 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: baec13eb7770a718d81fbd01b763b38c I'll get the error message and then post it here. I'm using Samsung drives that haven't seen any other problems under heavily utilization. What specific kernel version are you using? What version of vbox? -j On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 14:52, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:44 AM, James wrote: >> There doesn't seem to be anything in the VBox.log that indicates the >> system had a hard lockup. I imagine the kernel panicing resulted in >> VirtualBox being unable to write to the log. >> >> Is anyone running VB on a Linux raid partition? I've logically >> narrowed down the issue to one of the following: >> >> (a) I've read that network driver(s) have caused some hard lockups on >> the host...I'm using bridged mode >> (b) there are some strange messages that appear when the VM is started >> (regarding misaligned sectors or something like that); I can't seem to >> find the messages right now, however. I believe md was the one logging >> the errors; maybe this has something to do with the hard lockup? >> (c) SMP has probably been ruled out; I have two 4-core Intel 5570s; >> the system is under no load whatsoever. In fact, the last two kernel >> panics occurred during Windows installation. >> >> Any other thoughts on how to troubleshoot this? >> >> -james > > My Gentoo setup where the Vbox/VMWare executables are kept is a 3-disk RAID1. > > The VMs are kept on a 5-disk RAID6. It's this RAID6 that gets the > workout when the VM gets busy. > > If you can the messages that you're concerned about then I can check > for anything similar here. I'm currently running 3 VMs. > > Note that if it is a RAID issue that it might not be an mdraid problem > but rather the actual disk drive not being up to the tasks it needs to > perform. I have a bunch of 1TB WD Green drives on my bookshelf due to > RAID problems. I replaced them with WD RAID Edition drives and haven't > seen a problem since. > > HTH, > Mark > >