On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 17:49, Baho Utot <baho-utot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/25/10 18:18, David C. Rankin wrote: >> >> On 10/24/2010 05:06 AM, János Illés wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 14:54, Thomas Jost<schnouki@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hope this helps. >>> >>> I removed openntpd completely and disabled time sync. The vm still >>> freezes eventually. >>> Also, I cannot set clocksource to anything else than acpi_pm >>> >>> Let's go back to brainstorming mode, i welcome any new ideas. >>> >> OK, >> >> Let's start over. I haven't a clue about your clocksource loop, but I >> would >> suggest rebuilding virtualbox using: >> >> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9753 >> >> Of all the different packages, I have had great luck with this one. >> Just >> download the tarball and untar/ungzip with: >> >> tar -xzf virtualbox_bin.tar.gz >> >> cd virtualbox_bin/ >> >> makepkg -s >> >> sudo pacman -U virtualbox_bin-3.2.10-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz >> >> Then test again. >> > > That might help but if it where me I would build it using "A clean chroot" > > The instructions to do that is here: > > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_Clean_Chroot > > That way you would not get anything you didn't bargain for ;) > > Another suggestion would be to download the puel version from Oracle/Sun (http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/vboxdownload.html) and install it. I use it on two boxes and have not experienced any problems. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!