[OpenIndiana-discuss] KVM or VirtualBox on Dell T420

[Jonathan Adams]

booted -k -v ... all devices load fine, all 12 processors counted
correctly, device kvm0 connected fine, console login prompt, type "root"
and before I get to finish typing the password the keyboard is dead and the
computer is hung ...


On 8 April 2013 17:31, Jonathan Adams <t12nslookup at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 8 April 2013 17:23, Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:
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>> On 2013-04-08 18:12, Jonathan Adams wrote:
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>> I think you can load an older BE or a live media, mount the "current"
>> BE, and pkgrm VirtualBox package from there? ;)
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> Yeah I know ... but since it only takes 10 mins to do a re-install I'd go
> for that first ...
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> As it happens I can boot the VirtualBox be, but it's badly hung-over and
> doesn't do nice things like DHCP by itself ...
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>> You might also try enabling kdb and verbosity (in GRUB) to review
>> what is loaded and where this really hangs.
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> I will try that again, I tried modifying the system with the system
> settings from the wiki for diagnosing system hangs, but it just hung :)
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>> Still, if both hypervisors have a problem, maybe there's something
>> wrong with the computer? Perhaps, VT-X not enabled in BIOS or wrong
>> implementation (i.e. BIOS/Firmware update or downgrade needed)?
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> brand new server arrived friday from Dell ... I could try that ... my boss
> wants me to boot Ubuntu on it and try VirtualBox from there ...
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> Funnily enough he has managed to get VirtualBox working on Solaris10u11
> (downloaded for personal use on a similar server in his own home) ...
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> Can there be any hypervisor between BIOS and OI which captures the
>> hardware acceleration features and nothing is left for your other
>> solutions?
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> Not that I'm aware of, and I've toggled pretty much everything in the BIOS
> (with the exception of "Virtualization" which is enabled) with no success.
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> Hmm ...
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> Jon
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