Jim Klimov <[email protected]> writes: > On 2013-08-07 03:02, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Sorry about the line noise. I always forget how much can be fixed on >> windows by a reboot. It must be the most often rebooted OS on the >> planet. > > > Well, quite often killing some offending processes can also do the > trick ;) In case of VirtualBox, there are 3 or 4 VBox*.exe seen in > the Task Manager, and if your VMs are stopped and GUI is closed > these other helper processes should die off in a minute or so (not > instantly, though - they wait a bit for their "clients" to reconnect). > I guess something locked up in your processes, and these might need > to be killed off via Task Manager. > > I believe you don't run VMs as services? There are also some bad > DCOM interactions which forbid running interactive (GUI and CLI) > and service'd VirtualBox programs simultaneously.
I'm actually running it as a practice run for a while with superfluous data before plopping out $2000 $2500 for a more powerful win box with a lot more ram. I have 8GB on this laptop I'm using with older i7 820. Expecting to get a mobo supporting 32gb and just buck up and get the ram right from the start. Probably an i7 or one of the heavy hitting AMD cpus. When I finally do setup... I hope to run a zfs server, and a heavyish adobe inclined graphics workstation. The zfs server in vm. > In VirtualBox per-machine folders there are also Logs/ where you > can review causes for the recent crashes. Mostly the text is quite > cryptic, sometimes just pointing to "Guru meditation", but there > might still be clues... perhaps, inability to reserve a contiguous > large stretch of virtual memory or somesuch. I did look at those... but I couldn't tell poop about what I was looking at. None of it seemed to be about the freeze up. > Finally, FWIW, on a Windows server running a VirtualBox with a > Solaris installation, we had many problems with 4.2.* latest at > that time, which were resolved by reverting to 4.1.24(?) latest [...] Thanks for the heads up about that. I didn't notice anthing particularly compelling about 4.2 so wouldn't mind backing off. Its very good to know about things like this before making a costly move ... thanks. _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
