From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 18 09:38:14 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 B1CA1106566C for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:38:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adamk@voicenet.com) Received: from QMTA04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C0F88FC0C for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:38:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adamk@voicenet.com) Received: from OMTA07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.59]) by QMTA04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 5MXY1c0021GhbT854MeExr; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:38:14 +0000 Received: from sorrow.ashke.com ([68.45.151.98]) by OMTA07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 5MeE1c00327dlBY3TMeETm; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:38:14 +0000 Message-ID: <4A3A0B05.1060709@voicenet.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:38:13 -0400 From: Adam K Kirchhoff User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090410) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org References: <4A383783.3010800@voicenet.com> <20090617093329.488f8f2f@ernst.jennejohn.org> <4A390797.3000102@voicenet.com> <90a5caac0906170832v168542d1w3663bc0d238f2071@mail.gmail.com> <4A3A054E.8010806@voicenet.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 09:38:14 -0000 Ivan Voras wrote: > 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. > I have backtrace from the kernel vmcore file in my original e-mail. I still have the vmcore file, too, if that would prove useful to anyone. Should I open up a problem report for this crash? Adam