[Lxc-users] LXC + VirtualBox = Frozen Host

[John Drescher]

>
> I have been seeing reproducible freezes each time I start a VirtualBox VM
> when at least one of my LXC containers are already running. Even my mouse
> cursor is frozen, and all I could do is a hard reset each time.
>
> Here are some of the cases that I have tried:
> 1.) Starting a VirtualBox VM when an LXC container is already running
> effectively freezes the host.
> 2.) Starting an LXC container when a VirtualBox VM is already booted is
> fine.
> 3.) Starting another LXC container after point (2) is also fine.
> 4.) Starting antother VirtualBox VM after point (3) is also fine.
>
> Could somebody kindly share some light here? It seems that the initial
> startup of the VirtualBox module is the trigger here. Does LXC and
> VirtualBox really could co-exists together at the same time?
>

Yes. They have no problem working together for me.


>
> I intend to utilize the VirtualBox VMs for other-than-Linux-workload,
> whereas the LXC containers for all Linux workload. For the info, the host
> is a Linux Mint 13 (3.2.0-33-generic 64-bit) using VirtualBox 4.2.4. Both
> VirtualBox VM's files and LXC container's rootfs are on top of ZFS
> filesystem.


I start with a newer kernel.

John
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