# [OmniOS-discuss] virtualbox memory fault.

Geoff Nordli geoffn at gnaa.net
Wed Jun 29 00:25:25 UTC 2016

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    On 2016-06-28 12:57 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
    >
    >
    > On 2016-06-28 12:23 PM, Dale Ghent wrote:
    >> Is the vbox version you’re using on your new server different from
    >> that which you are using on existing ones?
    >>
    >> Are you compiling vbox on OmniOS, or using the pre-compiled Solaris
    >> binaries from Oracle?
    >>
    >> /dale
    >>
    >>> On Jun 28, 2016, at 3:11 PM, Geoff Nordli <geoffn at gnaa.net> wrote:
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> On 2016-06-28 11:59 AM, John D Groenveld wrote:
    >>>> In message <5772C723.80509 at gnaa.net>, Geoff Nordli writes:
    >>>>> I am running OmniOS v11 r151018.
    >>>>>
    >>>>> I have quite a few OI/Omnios OS boxes running Virtualbox. I
    >>>>> haven't see
    >>>>> this before.  On a new server I just installed I am getting a memory
    >>>>> fault right away when starting a vm.
    >>>> Perhaps set disable_smap=1?
    >>>> <URL:http://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2016-June/019049.html>
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>> BTW have you done any benchmarking between VBox and KVM?
    >>>> John
    >>>> groenveld at acm.org
    >>>>
    >>> Hi John.
    >>>
    >>> Yes, I set the disable_smap in the system and rebooted, but it
    >>> doesn't seem to help.  That setting supposedly prevents the host
    >>> from rebooting.
    >>>
    >>> On a Windows Server 2012 R2 I am getting the following networking
    >>> performance with iperf (default settings).
    >>>
    >>> Client -> VM  903Mbps
    >>> VM -> Client  572Mbps
    >>>
    >>> I am focused on small business systems and protecting their data, so
    >>> these numbers are more than good enough.
    >>>
    >>>
    >
    > Hi Dale.
    >
    > I am using the pre-compiled binaries from the vbox download site.
    >
    > I have another server using the same OmniOS release.   The one that
    > works is running 5.0.20, but i have tried both versions of vbox on the
    > new server and both are producing the memory fault.
    >
    > The only thing that seems to be different about these boxes are the
    > CPUs.   The one that works has older Xeons, the new one that doesn't
    > work is running E5-2630V3 (haswell).
    >
    > thanks,
    >
    > Geoff
    >
    >
    Just tried the newly released 5.0.24 and it still gives the same error.

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