Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:43:32 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VirtualBox/kernel broken? Message-ID: <200909222143.n8MLhWa8065001@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:46:06 %2B0200." <20090922124606.0a9aee4d@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:15:01 +0200 > Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> wrote: > > > So, I have a problem with VirtualBox and can't say whether it's a problem > > with VirtualBox itself or something which has changed in the kernel. > > > > I'm running FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT Wed Sep 16 11:40:19 CEST 2009 amd64. > > > > I installed both the port and the latest stuff from svn. > > > > The problem is with an installation of Windows 7 RC which was working > > fine with an older version of the port (can't say from when, though) > > AND of the kernel. > > > > Today I decided to try the latest version of VirtualBox and the W7RC > > fails upon booting with an internal VirtualBox error. > > > > Strangely enough, if I start W7RC in repair mode it happily runs to > > completion, but then the boot fails with the above mentioned error. > > > > Booting from the ISO also fails. > > > > I have all kinds of log files from VirtualBox which I can't parse. > > > > Interestingly enough, the two Linux installations, which are from > > about the same time as the W7RC installation, still run flawlessly. > > > > Has anyone else seen any strangeness with the newer versions of VirtualBox > > and a fairly recent 9.0-CURRENT? > > > > Since I never got any response to this, I'll relate what I've found out. > > If I turn off acceleration in Settings->System->Acceleration W7RC runs, > although it's very slow. > > Something broke somewhere, but I can't say whether in VirtualBox or the > kernel. Hi Gary, cc list. I tried to see if I could cast light on the above, using my 7.2-RELEASE kernel, + current/ports/emulators/virtualbox sources as of yesterday, built yesterday. I did dd bs=2k of my genuine Toshiba XP cdrom, tried to install it, & got an error from Tosh/Mickeysoft "Wrong machine This software is designed for TOSHIBA Personal Computers" As suspected, the XP that Toshiba sold bundled with my laptop is a crippled version, looking for Toshiba hardware warts. I assume Virtualbox is providing a nice generic environment without Tosh warts. (The above both running Virtualbox as normal user & root, from a .iso file, I tried running VirtualBox from original cdrom in drive, but failed, likely my user error). I hope someone else can give you a more useful response. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail ASCII plain text not HTML & Base64. http://asciiribbon.org Virused Microsoft PCs cause spam. http://berklix.com/free/
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