From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 18 09:21:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 855E9106566B for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:21:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-emulation@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B5A58FC21 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:21:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-emulation@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MHDoJ-0001u6-SS for freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:21:31 +0000 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:21:31 +0000 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:21:31 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:21:22 +0200 Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <4A383783.3010800@voicenet.com> <20090617093329.488f8f2f@ernst.jennejohn.org> <4A390797.3000102@voicenet.com> <90a5caac0906170832v168542d1w3663bc0d238f2071@mail.gmail.com> <4A3A054E.8010806@voicenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090615) In-Reply-To: <4A3A054E.8010806@voicenet.com> Sender: news Subject: Re: kernel panic with VirtualBox on -CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:21:35 -0000 Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > Ivan Voras wrote: >> Lucius Windschuh wrote: >>> 2009/6/17 Adam K Kirchhoff >>>> Unfortunately, I do not see an option in this computers' BIOS to >>>> enable virtualization. I'm actually trying on a machine at work >>>> now, rather than the one I tried at home yesterday, but the results >>>> are the same. This computer actually has as an Intel Core 2 Quad >>>> CPU (unlike yesterdays dualcore Xeon). Is there someway to check if >>>> the processors on these machines support the virtualization extensions? >>>> >>>> I also am not able to disable the AMD-V option in VirtualBox. The >>>> check box is selected but greyed out. >>> >>> "Me too". Same panic on an Atom board (i386 mode). Same greyed out >>> checkboxes. >>> Are you also using i386? >> >> Most Atom CPUs don't support hardware virtualization extensions. AFAIK >> only the "desktop" variants support it. >> > > On my machine, it's greyed out as well, which suggests my CPU doesn't > support the extensions. So why would the check box be checked? I suspect it might be a GUI thing - maybe the tookit has problem displaying the "disabled" state. > Are the extensions necessary to use VirtualBox on FreeBSD at the moment? If you want to use SMP or AMD64 guests, or need the performance. > Is there anything else I can test or any more information I can give to > figure out why my kernel is panicking with VirtualBox? Not really if you already tried getting a core dump.