[rescue] VirtualBox anecdotes - was Re: A wee bit off-topic

[Toby Thain]

On 2015-06-16 6:56 AM, Carl R. Friend wrote:
>     Greetings Rescuers!
>
>     This one's a we bit off-topic for this list, but given the crowd
> I thought I'd stand a chance of a hit anyway.
>
>     Who here works with Sun's VirtualBox atop Linux?  I've got such
> and instance at $PPOE and am seeining horrible stability problems
> with CentOS 7 and VirtualBox 4.3.28 -- lockups, mainly, with the
> VBoxSVC executable going deaf to vboxmanage's requests.  The only
> way out is to kill VBoxSVC, and the collateral damage from that is
> that all the VMs die as well.

As a counterexample, I've worked with it for 1-2 years in an environment 
where it was the standard, and ONLY, development environment for several 
thousand engineers, with very very few problems.

The host was Ubuntu (typically 8 or 16GB RAM) and the guest was RHEL.

--Toby


>
>     If anybody has experience with anything similar, I'd really
> appreciate an off-list note!
>
>     Thanks!
>
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