Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:16:59 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>, lev@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Latest -CURRENT/i386 could not start under VirutalBox 4.1.18 and 4.2 (Windows host): hangs up after atrtc0 detection Message-ID: <1348093019.95562.73.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmo=oHti=F8a=kaX=HZFyUjKwg-NaoRE=Ke_ezbVd7iauPQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <80840563.20120920002200@serebryakov.spb.ru> <1252171344.20120920003724@serebryakov.spb.ru> <1348087584.95562.55.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <CAGH67wS0pKmEjbHMH3dFPqkzTbEx6tFgBOKzWxGXHfDtap=iGw@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-Vmo=oHti=F8a=kaX=HZFyUjKwg-NaoRE=Ke_ezbVd7iauPQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 15:10 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 19 September 2012 14:57, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Ian Lepore > > <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> Yes, exactly. I updated the PR to request that my patch not get > >> committed because it locks up virtualbox. I hope to find time soon to > >> learn enough about installing/configuring virtualbox to figure out what > >> the problem is (offhand,I suspect it hangs in the loop that probes for > >> the need to re-index, because vbox doesn't quite emulate the hardware > >> behavior fully). > > > > Why not just detect VBox and disable that functionality? VMware at > > least has a sane way of determining whether or not you're running it > > based on the SMBios ident.. > > Sure, but that doens't answer the underlying reason(s) of "why is it > failing?". :-) Yeah, I'd much rather understand a problem than tap dance around it, at least for starters. Figuring out what's really going on may lead to a discovery that it would fail in other circumstances as well, or it may lead to a bugfix in vbox if that's where the problem lies. I'm just a bit too busy with $work right now to dig into it. -- Ian
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