From: "Massimo S." Received: from [192.168.100.201] (HELO mail.2rosenthals.com) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4.10) with ESMTPS id 252512 for virtualized_ecs_users@2rosenthals.com; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:32:49 -0500 Received: from secmgr-va.2rosenthals.com ([50.73.8.217]:35553 helo=mail2.2rosenthals.com) by mail.2rosenthals.com with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.82_1-5b7a7c0-XX) (envelope-from ) id 1irToI-0007yT-0T for virtualized_ecs_users@2rosenthals.com; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:33:14 -0500 Received: from mail2.quasarbbs.net ([80.86.52.115]:10130) by mail2.2rosenthals.com with esmtp (Exim 4.82_1-5b7a7c0-XX) (envelope-from ) id 1irToF-0003md-0z for virtualized_ecs_users@2rosenthals.com; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:33:11 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.199] (dtp [192.168.10.199]) by srv2 (Weasel v2.71) for ; 14 Jan 2020 22:33:09 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020208.5E1E339A.0025,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020204.5E1E3397.004B,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 Reply-To: ml@ecomstation.it Subject: Re: [Virtualized eCS] Virtual box 6.0.14 r 133895, acpi shutdown with AOS 5.0.3 and virtual cpu To: Virtualized eCS Users Mailing List References: <557ca898-df32-d74d-4e8d-1569fbdf812b@ecomstation.it> Organization: eComStation dot it Message-ID: <30fd935e-6e04-f1a6-5879-4b94bd2c9e51@ecomstation.it> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 22:33:07 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; it-IT; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060424 Thunderbird/1.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: it-IT Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Il 14/01/2020 17:45, Massimo S. ha scritto: > > > Il 14/01/2020 17:29, Massimo S. ha scritto: >> >> >> Il 14/01/2020 16:30, Doug Bissett ha scritto: >>> On 2020-01-14, at 10:29:21, Massimo S. wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Il 14/01/2020 00:58, Doug Bissett ha scritto: >>>>> I recommend not using more than 1 CPU in the VBox >>> configuration. >>>>> Later versions of VBox work a little better than older ones, but it >>>>> looks like the support is similar to HYPERTHREADING, and >>>>> HYPERTHREADING is not, at all, friendly to OS/2. Using it will >>>>> probably result in hangs, after a while (usually less than 10 >>>>> minutes). >>>> >>>> which version on Vbox? here there is the latest 6.0.14 r133895 >>> >>> That one seems to work better than earlier versions, but I still >>> recommend using only one CPU in VBox. You will probably see >>> hangs, if you try more than one. From what I see, the second CPU >>> doesn't make much difference anyway. >>> >>>> which version of host OS? here windows server 2019 standard >>> edition >>>> 64bit >>> >>> I use win 10 PRO 64 bit. >> >> Windows Server is more stable/reliable for virtualization in general >> maybe under Win Server there are no issues with multi-cores >> >> my AOS VM is running since this morning i'm doing everything >> and it seems rock solid stable >> >> massimo > > i had my AOS 503 installation, is very feature-poor > no winos2, no usb, no audio, no aspi, no cups, no hpfs, no fat3, no iso-fs, > all dos virtual memory drivers are disabled etc.. etc.. "i had" = "i add" :) sorry > maybe as desktop use it is not so much stable > i use it as a server > > eg. i've seen usb drivers doing weird (hang) stuff.. > i've really commented a great number of entries in config.sys > > this VM have to runs only 3 apps, moylan ftp server, apache and php > and rsync for bkups > stop > > massimo after hours of tests it also runs apache ssl+php well it seems faster than the other server on bare metal i confirm that i had no hangs or freeze of the VM but i repeat, i really run a minimal configuration other very cool thing is that sw handybackup that use windows shadow copy provider service and bkups the running VM on another disk in about just seconds massimo