Quote from: scrutch2001 on 2011.05.04, 01:10:43
I am having exactly the same problem - Firefox 4 causes a trap and VM crash in Virtual Box (Mac Snow Leopard host). It does NOT cause a trap in either VMWare or Parallels Workstation on the Mac.
Honestly I don't have hard facts to back it up. But sometimes I really wonder how mature VM are.
Some the things I have seen:
Running MPTS with Virtual PC 2004 dragged down just about the complete host OS Windows XP (system responded almost
in no way to keyboard or mouse input anymore). Could be reproduced every time. Seems some 16 bit code in MPTS screwed things.
A developer I know had weird output with debugging an application with GCC. On real CPU the same
code give different results then in a VM. (Virtual box).
We tested Virtualbox 3.16 with eCS 2.0 at the time and Virtualbox 3.20. Later people reported problems with Virtualbox.
Especially traps and hangs.
One thing we still need to look at. If you load the SMP kernel in Virtual PC it will always trap the system in JFS.IFS (happens during system startup!).
Do the same on real hardware never seen...
For me virtual machines are not the most stable thing in town and with Virtualbox I do have my doubts looking at the varying results people have with installing eCS with Virtualbox.
From the postings I see I get the impression to much stuff is still happening with Virtualbox underneath the boned.
I just have not had the time yet to make a complete inventory. And again I see to little feedback in the ecomstation bugtracker.
From my point of view it should not be the OS that should adopt to the virtual machine but the virtual machine should be a stable environment. An exception is of course if we clearly have a defect in eCS!
Roderick Klein
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