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 1SNvUk-0003Xu-EE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:26:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F12C5E0BA6; Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:26:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qa0-f46.google.com (mail-qa0-f46.google.com [209.85.216.46]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83973E0B0C for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:24:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qatm19 with SMTP id m19so653935qat.19 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:24:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=/mpxj9HcMUxt9W+JbddAjg2MeArO4uhXybfj/pCmtlk=; b=LOeOK28Tyf3bI8Whwb0RP3lnmf/Rs2iuNRtqOlnpDxzH3qbgBdPN7sKPIgHWZwuAwr aPCbySAHpg730WpczhDXbjrBm1XtQCtWVM+bBrRVlhYd31SwRgp6k6y5lDbENFlq7ENl 1VVhszG5KdG5g+t3cpC7s6fQSztxIzTshtvg+gYv+Nuq67Q5Eltodn1S0dKR+V5yqWJ1 mdRXnIkVMhbgM+HpAuPnmtXpv7gmfDkg1UCdyy+vPuuafcCZbxAfuU7tRjm3iaz8IeBQ 3/IxiZiYqc20TdVvOL+CxYm0o+69RLnn2GCKBp5ydc0BL3CeOnnkGhissobYj081GkV9 Jcrg== 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 Received: by 10.224.211.72 with SMTP id gn8mr10991062qab.10.1335572651040; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:24:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.227.210 with HTTP; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:24:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4F9B23C0.5080405@gentoo.org> References: <4F9AF513.6080207@gentoo.org> <4F9B23C0.5080405@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:24:10 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo segfaults on virtualbox-4.1.14 when running on AMD bulldozer From: Matthew Marlowe To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQl7uuzCnrF04iIMaIZ0NQ2B6ebfknRt7Kw0LryatMlytii32ESsfZWaAzyuBocWqrc90Ge2 X-Archives-Salt: f1e17e96-8279-430d-bdaa-7d7c9c92883a X-Archives-Hash: b8d96c952453ee7015d991ff9be2df71 On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > On 04/27/2012 11:45 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 27/04/12 22:35, Markos Chandras wrote: >>> I replaced my Phenom II cpu with a new 6-core AMD bulldozer. However, I >>> noticed that all of my Gentoo virtual machines throw (compiler) >>> segmentation faults when building or running any application. >> I'm not familiar with virtualbox, but I've seen similar issues occur with vmware and the solution was to at least temporarily mask whatever new cpu flags the new hypervisor was passing to the guest. In vmware, one could limit the cpu flags to maintain compatibility with various cpu releases which was especially helpful in clusters.... Yes, your gentoo vms should have been fine ..but at least until you track down the issue, see if virtualbox has a similar feature? -- Matthew Marlowe matt@professionalsysadmin.com https://www.twitter.com/deploylinux 1-805-857-9144