[Lxc-users] LXC + VirtualBox = Frozen Host

[Okky]

Hi John, 

Thanks for the answer, could you share your kernel version so that I could try upgrading to that specific version.

Best regards, 

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Okky
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On Monday, November 19, 2012 at 1:03, John Drescher wrote:

> > 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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