[OpenIndiana-discuss] KVM or VirtualBox on Dell T420

[Marcel Telka]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 05:12:37PM +0100, Jonathan Adams wrote:
> I'm trying to get any kind of virtualization running on a Dell PowerEdge
> T420, but every time I try to start KVM the system hangs.
> 
> I re-installed from scratch, and Installed again with --require-new-be just
> to check and on reboot it hung again.
> 
> I rebooted and tried to install VirtualBox and it got to the point "Loading
> VirtualBox kernel modules..." then the system hung again.
> 
> I now have a FUBAR'd box which needs a re-install ... and I would really
> like to know if anyone else got this working?
> 
> (also it comes with bge's that I can't talk to in OpenIndiana/Illumos)

Excerpt from my notes:

--- workaround for Bug #1723 (already in il chset 13903, not yet in OI)
echo "set apix_enable=0" >> /etc/system


Maybe it will help you too...

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