From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 27 20:17:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA06548 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 20:17:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA06543 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 20:17:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id MAA03611; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 12:46:36 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707280316.MAA03611@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Anyone tried VirtualPC with FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <19970727194659.PM-3fwlm6so@Adam.BeOS> from Jake Hamby at "Jul 27, 97 07:46:59 pm" To: jehamby@be.com (Jake Hamby) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 12:46:36 +0930 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jake Hamby stands accused of saying: > Just for fun, I tried to boot FreeBSD 2.2.2 from within the VirtualPC > emulator for MacOS, which claims to simulate a full Intel Pentium PC at > the hardware level. It can run unmodified version of Windows 95, NT, > OS/2, and NextStep, and so I assumed it wouldn't have much trouble with > FreeBSD. > > Unfortunately, immediately after loading the kernel, FreeBSD panicked with > this error: > > Fatal trap 1: privileged instruction fault while in kernel mode > > instruction ptr = 0x8:0xf01b99aa Where is this in the kernel? Are you booting an installation disk? If so, which one? Suck the kernel off the disk, and say : nm kernel | sort | less and send us the symbols from around the IP above. > Obviously, this is a bug in Connectix's CPU emulator. But I'm curious if > anyone could give any information off-hand as to what they might be doing > wrong that would trigger such an error from the FreeBSD kernel. Not _necessarily_ "obviously"; it's possible that the emulator just does something "odd" that's upsetting the kernel. > Jake Hamby -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[