[OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot errors I need to understand and possibly deal with, please advise!

Hans J. Albertsson hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se
Tue Mar 19 18:24:51 UTC 2013


Hmm.

The only bit running is xvm/vnc-config.

The packages are needed by lots of other stuff: slim_install and such. Well.


On 2013-03-19 19:08, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
> Thanks. Knowledge was all I was after. I shall disable the KVM stuff
>
> On 2013-03-19 18:40, Jonathan Adams wrote:
>> On 19 March 2013 16:37, Hans J. Albertsson
>> <hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se> wrote:
>>> On 2013-03-19 15:15, Jonathan Adams wrote:
>>>> On 19 March 2013 13:51, Hans J. Albertsson 
>>>> <hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se> wrote:
>>>>> 3. WARNING: kvm: insufficient hardware support (lacking EPT)
>>>>> Huh??? The CPU is a Xeon 3330. Intel says that has VT and EPT 
>>>>> support,
>>>>> and
>>>>> I've enabled VT and VT-d support in the BIOS. What gives?? Is Intel
>>>>> lying???
>>>>>
>>>> what are your outputs to "psrinfo -v" and "isainfo -v" ?
>> ...
>>
>>> 64-bit amd64 applications
>>>      vmx xsave sse4.1 ssse3 cx16 sse3 sse2 sse fxsr mmx cmov 
>>> amd_sysc cx8
>>>
>>>      tsc fpu
>>> 32-bit i386 applications
>>>      vmx xsave sse4.1 ssse3 ahf cx16 sse3 sse2 sse fxsr mmx cmov sep 
>>> cx8
>>>      tsc fpu
>>>
>>>
>>> I e very much the same as your result.
>>>
>>> And what does that tell us about what to do about the error message??
>> I know when running KVM on Linux that there are issues with the CPU
>> not passing vmx ... and there are settings in the BIOS to deal with
>> this ...
>>
>> *slaps forehead*
>>
>> I've just realised that you have VirtualBox installed ... you cannot
>> have KVM and Virtualbox Installed, you have to choose.
>>
>> I have VirtualBox on my laptop (with the error you get above), and KVM
>> on the server (with no error), but they don't mix.
>>
>> I had real trouble on my laptop when I had KVM installed and tried
>> using VirtualBox, so I just de-installed the KVM on the laptop and
>> everything is working fine.
>>
>> Jon
>>
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