Solaris 10x86 hangs on Virtualbox-x.x

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upengan78
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Solaris 10x86 hangs on Virtualbox-x.x

Post by upengan78 »

Hello,

I have 3 Guests on Virtualbox 3.0.2 running on gentoo(x86_64). Virtualbox runs fine and the guests as well. Problem is Solaris x86_64 guests (2 VMs)do not respond after usage (may be after 5-10hours) I can not ssh into these guests and the guest console also does not respond. I have to reset these guests and reboot them inorder to work on them. I do get a box from this new version of Virtualbox that do i want to ignore or click recommended ok option.

This happens with Virtualbox 2.x version as well as 3.0.2 which is latest version for amd64(linux host)

Interesting part : 3rd guest which is Centos 5.3 keeps on running absolutely fine. The host OS is running fine as well.

I am not running CDE or JDE on solaris and it is basically command line. The hung console does not show any error message indicating why the system stopped responding.

*Log : attached VBOX.log

xml :
more solx86_64.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- Sun VirtualBox Machine Configuration -->
<VirtualBox xmlns="http://www.innotek.de/VirtualBox-settings" version="1.7-linux">
<Machine uuid="{64a612d3-7ff3-4e9d-957d-7cf0cd9bd8a5}" name="solx86_64" OSType="Solaris_64" lastStateChange="2
009-07-22T18:05:33Z">
<ExtraData>
<ExtraDataItem name="GUI/SaveMountedAtRuntime" value="yes"/>
<ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastCloseAction" value="shutdown"/>
<ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastWindowPostion" value="348,444,244,47"/>
<ExtraDataItem name="GUI/Fullscreen" value="off"/>
<ExtraDataItem name="GUI/Seamless" value="off"/>
<ExtraDataItem name="GUI/AutoresizeGuest" value="on"/>
<ExtraDataItem name="GUI/InfoDlgState" value="400,450,normal"/>
<ExtraDataItem name="GUI/MiniToolBarAutoHide" value="on"/>
</ExtraData>
<Hardware>
<CPU count="1">
<HardwareVirtEx enabled="true"/>
</CPU>
<Memory RAMSize="680"/>
<Boot>
<Order position="1" device="Floppy"/>
<Order position="2" device="DVD"/>
<Order position="3" device="HardDisk"/>
</Boot>
<Display VRAMSize="16" monitorCount="1" accelerate3D="false"/>
<RemoteDisplay enabled="false" port="3389" authType="Null" authTimeout="5000"/>
<BIOS>
<ACPI enabled="true"/>
<IOAPIC enabled="true"/>
<Logo fadeIn="true" fadeOut="true" displayTime="0"/>
<BootMenu mode="MessageAndMenu"/>
<TimeOffset value="0"/>
<PXEDebug enabled="false"/>
</BIOS>
<DVDDrive passthrough="false"/>
<FloppyDrive enabled="true"/>
<USBController enabled="false" enabledEhci="false"/>
<Network>
<Adapter slot="0" enabled="true" MACAddress="080027A5DC5E" cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM">
<BridgedInterface name="vbox2"/>
</Adapter>
<Adapter slot="1" enabled="true" MACAddress="0800272E9DA3" cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM">
<InternalNetwork name="intnet"/>
</Adapter>
<Adapter slot="2" enabled="false" MACAddress="0800275D5C82" cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM"/>
<Adapter slot="3" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027BD1490" cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM"/>
<Adapter slot="4" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027390A9D" cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM"/>
<Adapter slot="5" enabled="false" MACAddress="08002750EFF6" cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM"/>
<Adapter slot="6" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027263400" cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM"/>
<Adapter slot="7" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027ADDC80" cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM"/>
</Network>
<UART>
<Port slot="0" enabled="false" IOBase="0x3f8" IRQ="4" hostMode="Disconnected"/>
<Port slot="1" enabled="false" IOBase="0x3f8" IRQ="4" hostMode="Disconnected"/>
</UART>
<LPT>
<Port slot="0" enabled="false" IOBase="0x378" IRQ="4"/>
<Port slot="1" enabled="false" IOBase="0x378" IRQ="4"/>
</LPT>
<AudioAdapter controller="AC97" driver="ALSA" enabled="true"/>
<SharedFolders/>
<Clipboard mode="Bidirectional"/>
<Guest memoryBalloonSize="0" statisticsUpdateInterval="0"/>
<GuestProperties>
<GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/HostInfo/GUI/LanguageID" value="C" timestamp="1248268866521989000" flag
s=""/>
</GuestProperties>
</Hardware>
<StorageControllers>
<StorageController name="IDE" type="PIIX4" PortCount="2">
<AttachedDevice type="HardDisk" port="0" device="0">
<Image uuid="{170ec533-55c9-47ab-b4d0-9cf2d964f8fd}"/>
</AttachedDevice>
<AttachedDevice type="HardDisk" port="0" device="1">
<Image uuid="{7c911d71-4572-43ac-be6d-e8736f8c5ec2}"/>
</AttachedDevice>
</StorageController>
<StorageController name="SCSI" type="BusLogic" PortCount="16"/>
</StorageControllers>
</Machine>
</VirtualBox>
One more thing, the 2 solaris x86_64 systems are patched to latest level and they freeze regardless of the patch level :)

I am wondering what is the issue. Can anyone please help ?
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Re: Solaris 10x86 hangs on Virtualbox-x.x

Post by rasta »

Sounds like the old problem with hanging Solaris guests. See this thread:

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=14390

And this bug:

http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2258

These documented problems are mainly with Solaris 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts (recognized generically in Known Issues). However, you are getting hanging on such guests on 64-bit hosts. You should post another bug. I have found instability of Solaris 64- and 32-bit guests on a 32-bit WinXP host. The problem appears to involve VT-x. Without VT-x enabled, 32-bit Solaris guests are unusably slow on 32-bit hosts. With VT-x enabled, the Solaris guests are unstable.
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Re: Solaris 10x86 hangs on Virtualbox-x.x

Post by upengan78 »

rasta wrote:Sounds like the old problem with hanging Solaris guests. See this thread:

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=14390

And this bug:

http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2258

These documented problems are mainly with Solaris 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts (recognized generically in Known Issues). However, you are getting hanging on such guests on 64-bit hosts. You should post another bug. I have found instability of Solaris 64- and 32-bit guests on a 32-bit WinXP host. The problem appears to involve VT-x. Without VT-x enabled, 32-bit Solaris guests are unusably slow on 32-bit hosts. With VT-x enabled, the Solaris guests are unstable.

Thanks Rasta, I just finished reading that thread. Ok. Here goes another bug then.. :D

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http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/4602
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