[vbox-dev] disk I/O crashes of FreeBSD 9.1-P7 guest on Mac OS X 10.8.5 host

[Axel Rau]

Am 23.09.2013 um 19:05 schrieb Axel Rau <Axel.Rau at chaos1.de>:

>> 
>> On 22.09.2013 13:38, Axel Rau wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> This VM exists 6 month now and worked perfect.
>>> Recently I upgraded the host from 10.8.4 to 10.8.5.
>>> Today, I started the VM after a break of 2 month after upgrading VBox to 4.2.18r88780.
>>> After that, I updated freebsd 9.1 to 9.1-P7 using freebsd-update.
>>> Everything worked perfect so far.
>>> Then I did a portsnap fetch and a portsnap update, which froze the VM immediately (lots of directories/file had to be removed).
>>> After a few seconds the VM started rebooting but was unable to find the root disk (a SATA drive), until I powered down and restarted.
>>> This was reproducible.
>>> After that I switched the disks to a IDE controller: Same crash on portsnap update. Only difference: It completed its reboot.

No problems on new VM with a fresh installed FreeBSD!

Thanks, Axel
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