[OpenIndiana-discuss] AMD based systems and VirtualBox

[Joshua M. Clulow]

On Sat, 2 Aug 2025 at 17:22, Carl Brewer via openindiana-discuss
<openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
> On 2/08/2025 6:14 pm, russell wrote:
> > If anyone is experiencing issue with VirtualBox not running on
> > Openindiana, after checking that virtualisation is enabled in the BIOS,
> > use the following settings and then reboot
> >
> >
> > # echo "set  hma_disable = 1" > /etc/system.d/hma
> >
> > # echo "set disable_smap =1" > /etc/system.d/smap
> >
> >
> > It would be useful if this could be included in the OpenIndiana docs.
>
> You could make the argument that this could/should be part of the pkg
> install

I think a better question to ask would be: why is setting these
debugging tuneables necessary at all?  Is this a bug in VirtualBox or
the OS?


Cheers.

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Joshua M. Clulow
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