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

Hans J. Albertsson hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se
Wed Mar 20 23:15:27 UTC 2013


Which you can't.. and there are no "kvm" packages... there are xvm, xen, 
virtualbox...

which of those decided to advertise itself as kvm???

Not very well designed.

On 2013-03-20 22:29, Jonathan Adams wrote:
> yeah, to disable the kvm stuff you'll need to remove the kvm packages ...
>
> On 19 March 2013 18:24, Hans J. Albertsson
> <hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se> wrote:
>> 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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