On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 15:10 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 19 September 2012 14:57, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi_at_gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Ian Lepore > > <freebsd_at_damnhippie.dyndns.org> wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> Yes, exactly. I updated the PR to request that my patch not get > >> committed because it locks up virtualbox. I hope to find time soon to > >> learn enough about installing/configuring virtualbox to figure out what > >> the problem is (offhand,I suspect it hangs in the loop that probes for > >> the need to re-index, because vbox doesn't quite emulate the hardware > >> behavior fully). > > > > Why not just detect VBox and disable that functionality? VMware at > > least has a sane way of determining whether or not you're running it > > based on the SMBios ident.. > > Sure, but that doens't answer the underlying reason(s) of "why is it > failing?". :-) Yeah, I'd much rather understand a problem than tap dance around it, at least for starters. Figuring out what's really going on may lead to a discovery that it would fail in other circumstances as well, or it may lead to a bugfix in vbox if that's where the problem lies. I'm just a bit too busy with $work right now to dig into it. -- IanReceived on Wed Sep 19 2012 - 20:17:03 UTC
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