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Subject: Re: Latest -CURRENT/i386 could not start under VirutalBox 4.1.18 and
 4.2 (Windows host): hangs up after atrtc0 detection
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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?". :-)


Adrian