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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo segfaults on virtualbox-4.1.14 when running on AMD bulldozer
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:06:44
Message-Id: 4F9EE1EC.4010402@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo segfaults on virtualbox-4.1.14 when running on AMD bulldozer by Michael Mol
1 On 04/30/2012 02:33 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
2 > Neat. Random guess, but it could be a bug in Bulldozer's memory
3 > controller or IOMMU. Try disabling IOMMU support in your kernel?
4 >
5 > On Apr 29, 2012 3:29 PM, "Markos Chandras" <hwoarang@g.o
6 > <mailto:hwoarang@g.o>> wrote:
7 >
8 > On 04/28/2012 01:24 AM, Matthew Marlowe wrote:
9 >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Markos Chandras
10 > <hwoarang@g.o <mailto:hwoarang@g.o>> wrote:
11 >>> On 04/27/2012 11:45 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
12 >>>> On 27/04/12 22:35, Markos Chandras wrote:
13 >>>>> I replaced my Phenom II cpu with a new 6-core AMD
14 >>>>> bulldozer.
15 > However, I
16 >>>>> noticed that all of my Gentoo virtual machines throw
17 >>>>> (compiler) segmentation faults when building or running any
18 >>>>> application.
19 >>>>
20 >>
21 >> I'm not familiar with virtualbox, but I've seen similar issues
22 >> occur with vmware and the solution was to at least temporarily
23 >> mask whatever new cpu flags the new hypervisor was passing to the
24 >> guest. In vmware, one could limit the cpu flags to maintain
25 >> compatibility with various cpu releases which was especially
26 >> helpful in clusters.... Yes, your gentoo vms should have been
27 >> fine ..but at least until you track down the issue, see if
28 >> virtualbox has a similar feature?
29 >>
30 > Interestingly this seems to be caused when using my wireless card
31 > to bridge the virtualbox interfaces onto. I can't reproduce (yet)
32 > any segfaults when I use the onboard ethernet card. I have the
33 > following wireless card (supported by the rtl8180 kernel module)
34 >
35 > 04:06.0 Ethernet controller: Belkin F5D7000 v7000 Wireless G
36 > Desktop Card [Realtek RTL8185] (rev 20)
37 >
38 > -- Regards, Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID:
39 > B4AFF2C2
40 >
41 AMD IOMMU (Device Drivers -> Hardware IOMMU ) makes no difference. I
42 will have to move the discussion to virtualbox forums/ML as this seems
43 a driver or virtualbox problem. Bridge networking on that wireless
44 card work flawlessly when using Windows 7 as host.
45
46 --
47 Regards,
48 Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2

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