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Vbox and my web browsers are really the only things I have running that us an inordinate amount of memory as well. How much memory do you have?
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Originally posted by Zajec View PostSure it isn't any proof, just the easiest explanation for something I've observed to be very consistent. My Opera could run for days without crashing. And every time I've started virtual machine - bang - it crashed.
I'll test it again when I find some time, maybe will find out sth more and grab real proofs.
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Originally posted by locovaca View Post1. I start VirtualBox
2. Opera crashes
3. Therefore, VirtualBox is corrupting memory
That's one hell of a jump to that conclusion.
I'll test it again when I find some time, maybe will find out sth more and grab real proofs.
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Originally posted by Thatguy View PostThe problem isn't virtual box, which runs phenominally well on windows platforms, the problem is that linux is a huge undocumented mess of spaghetti code.
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Originally posted by Hohlraum View PostSounds like he's got a chair to keyboard interface error. I kid! I've really never had any of these issues with virtualbox on linux but I only ever use it on ubuntu and always use the official builds from the virtualbox repo.
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Originally posted by locovaca View Post1. I start VirtualBox
2. Opera crashes
3. Therefore, VirtualBox is corrupting memory
That's one hell of a jump to that conclusion.
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Originally posted by Zajec View PostI got huge problem with VirtualBox some time ago when I was testing it. Every time I started my virtual machine, Opera was crashing. I guess kernel module had to corrupt some memory used by Opera. Don't see other explanation. Not sure how it works now, with recent versions of VirtualBox.
2. Opera crashes
3. Therefore, VirtualBox is corrupting memory
That's one hell of a jump to that conclusion.
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One difficulty that VirtualBox has, is it supports many more platforms and guest OSes. It is like Windows; it can run on many different machines, unsupported and supported. This makes Windows fragile. Mac OS X runs only on a set hardware and there are less factors that can go wrong.
It is easier to support only a few OSes and few guest OS, than support many. I have now an support issue with VMware workstation, it crashed and they ask me for even more log files now. Duh
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I got huge problem with VirtualBox some time ago when I was testing it. Every time I started my virtual machine, Opera was crashing. I guess kernel module had to corrupt some memory used by Opera. Don't see other explanation. Not sure how it works now, with recent versions of VirtualBox.
Originally posted by baryluk View PostStrange. I am using VirtualBox moderatly often for 3 years now, and I'm always working on bleding edge kernel versions. I had never, ever had crash because of VirtualBox. Hover I had reported lots of problems with kernel itself (about 30 genuine new bugs), and it was always problem in kernel, not vboxdrv. So, now what, if I have loaded vboxdrv, developers will reject my bug reports automatically (even If I do nothing with virtualbox or guest system, beside loading module itself)? This is some bullshit.
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