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VMware and Virtualbox timer causes on Solaris 10 update 8 and later nanosleep to hang for ever
12/01/13
The system call nanosleep uses the system call cv_timedwait_sig to wait. Starting with Solaris 10 update 8 the system call cv_timedwait_sig uses the system call cv_timedwait_sig_hires to wait which then uses gethrtime() to schedule the wake up time. As this high resolution timer can jump on Solaris -
Oracle Database corruption after crashing a VMware Instance running Solaris on a UFS or ZFS Filesystem
12/01/13
When running a Oracle Databases on a UFS or ZFS filesystem on Solaris 10 X86 on VMware virtual machine, the default values of all the stacks involved (Oracle Database, Solaris, VMware) can cause a database corruption, each time the VMware virtual machine is powered off without cleanly shut down the
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VMware and Virtualbox timer causes on Solaris 10 update 8 and later nanosleep to hang for ever