id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,guest,host
7019,poor performance when building the Solaris kernel,peter.dennis@oracle.com,,"Host Operating System: OpenSolaris - build snv_134a
Guest:                 OpenSolaris - build snv_134a - with the guest additions installed
Physical h/w:          Sun Fire X4600 M2 (8 quad core AMD CPU), 65Gb memory

Issue:
When building the Solaris kernel (ON) the performance of the Virtual Machine 
drops and the build ultimately fails. Upon initial investigation it would
appear some I/O issue occurs.

The guest reports the following errors:

Jun 16 13:31:22 on-osol1005-bld-x scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1,1/ide@1 (ata1):
Jun 16 13:31:22 on-osol1005-bld-x       timeout: abort request, target=0 lun=0
Jun 16 13:31:22 on-osol1005-bld-x scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1,1/ide@1 (ata1):
Jun 16 13:31:22 on-osol1005-bld-x       timeout: abort device, target=0 lun=0
Jun 16 13:31:22 on-osol1005-bld-x scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1,1/ide@1 (ata1):
Jun 16 13:31:22 on-osol1005-bld-x       timeout: reset target, target=0 lun=0
Jun 16 13:31:22 on-osol1005-bld-x scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1,1/ide@1 (ata1):
Jun 16 13:31:22 on-osol1005-bld-x       timeout: reset bus, target=0 lun=0

and the VBox.log showed:


02:08:33.194 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: RESET, DevSel=0 AIOIf=0 CmdIf0=0xc8 (-1 usec ago) CmdIf1=0x00 (-1 usec ago)
02:08:33.227 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: finished processing RESET
02:08:49.731 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: RESET, DevSel=0 AIOIf=0 CmdIf0=0xe7 (-1 usec ago) CmdIf1=0x00 (-1 usec ago)
02:08:49.761 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: finished processing RESET
02:15:54.858 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: RESET, DevSel=0 AIOIf=0 CmdIf0=0xc8 (-1 usec ago) CmdIf1=0x00 (-1 usec ago)
02:15:54.892 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: finished processing RESET
02:18:16.518 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: RESET, DevSel=0 AIOIf=0 CmdIf0=0xca (-1 usec ago) CmdIf1=0x00 (-1 usec ago)
02:18:16.550 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: finished processing RESET
02:30:28.437 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: RESET, DevSel=0 AIOIf=0 CmdIf0=0xc8 (-1 usec ago) CmdIf1=0x00 (-1 usec ago)
02:30:28.478 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: finished processing RESET
02:35:41.089 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: RESET, DevSel=0 AIOIf=0 CmdIf0=0xc8 (-1 usec ago) CmdIf1=0x00 (-1 usec ago)
02:35:41.119 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: finished processing RESET
02:49:37.093 PIIX3 ATA: LUN#2: performing device RESET 

This issue has not been isolated to just this particular system - another
build system - using the same software mix had the same issues.

The host was not busy at all.

I have marked this as major as this is essentially preventing the use of
VB as tool to host build systems.

I have attached the following information:

o VBox.log
o showvminfo
o showhdinfo

Any information on what could be the problem or any diagnostics that can help track
it down appreciated.",defect,closed,virtual disk,VirtualBox 3.1.8,fixed,,,Solaris,Solaris