Re: issues running i386 6.1 under VirtualBox 4.2.12

[Tru Huynh <tru%pasteur.fr@localhost>]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 11:17:56AM +1000, Malcolm Herbert wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:21:22AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> |On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 09:11:28AM +1000, Malcolm Herbert wrote:
> |> NIC. Hardware virtualisation features (VT-x/AMD-V) are off.
> |
> |Don't do that (or did you mean your hardware does not support them?)
> 
> I turned them off because VirtualBox complained at one point, but this
> I took to be because I was on a 32-bit version of Windows rather than a
> hardware problem. Unfortunately I don't have the host in front of me at
> the moment, so I can't tell which CPU type it has.
> 
> Will try again with them on when I get back to work on Monday.

For what is worth, it just work out of the box on my CentOS-5 x86_64 host
running VirtualBox 4.2.14 (updated this morning):

[tru@sillage ~]$ VBoxManage showvminfo netbsd-6.1.i386 --machinereadable
name="netbsd-6.1.i386"
groups="/"
ostype="NetBSD"
UUID="3121500f-7551-42dd-895b-982fc42afaf8"
CfgFile="/home/tru/VirtualBox VMs/netbsd-6.1.i386/netbsd-6.1.i386.vbox"
SnapFldr="/home/tru/VirtualBox VMs/netbsd-6.1.i386/Snapshots"
LogFldr="/home/tru/VirtualBox VMs/netbsd-6.1.i386/Logs"
hardwareuuid="3121500f-7551-42dd-895b-982fc42afaf8"
memory=1024
pagefusion="off"
vram=9
cpuexecutioncap=100
hpet="off"
chipset="piix3"
firmware="BIOS"
cpus=1
synthcpu="off"
bootmenu="messageandmenu"
boot1="floppy"
boot2="dvd"
boot3="disk"
boot4="none"
acpi="on"
ioapic="off"
pae="off"
Time offset=0rtcuseutc="off"
hwvirtex="on"
hwvirtexexcl="on"
nestedpaging="on"
largepages="off"
vtxvpid="on"
VMState="running"
VMStateChangeTime="2013-06-24T14:16:39.691000000"
monitorcount=1
accelerate3d="off"
accelerate2dvideo="off"
teleporterenabled="off"
teleporterport=0
teleporteraddress=""
teleporterpassword=""
tracing-enabled="off"
tracing-allow-vm-access="off"
tracing-config=""
autostart-enabled="off"
autostart-delay=0
storagecontrollername0="IDE"
storagecontrollertype0="PIIX4"
storagecontrollerinstance0="0"
storagecontrollermaxportcount0="2"
storagecontrollerportcount0="2"
storagecontrollerbootable0="on"
storagecontrollername1="SATA"
storagecontrollertype1="IntelAhci"
storagecontrollerinstance1="0"
storagecontrollermaxportcount1="30"
storagecontrollerportcount1="1"
storagecontrollerbootable1="on"
"IDE-0-0"="none"
"IDE-0-1"="none"
"IDE-1-0"="/var/ftp/pub/tmp/NetBSD-6.1-i386.iso"
"IDE-ImageUUID-1-0"="41f65bad-ae5a-4b2d-afeb-1cf8196f4390"
"IDE-tempeject"="off"
"IDE-IsEjected"="off"
"IDE-1-1"="none"
"SATA-0-0"="/home/tru/VirtualBox VMs/netbsd-6.1.i386/netbsd-6.1-i386.vdi"
"SATA-ImageUUID-0-0"="47f6de44-4b28-45ab-a7ca-abb064439f9f"
natnet1="nat"
macaddress1="0800271248DB"
cableconnected1="on"
nic1="nat"
nictype1="82540EM"
nicspeed1="0"
mtu="0"
sockSnd="64"
sockRcv="64"
tcpWndSnd="64"
tcpWndRcv="64"
nic2="none"
nic3="none"
nic4="none"
nic5="none"
nic6="none"
nic7="none"
nic8="none"
hidpointing="ps2mouse"
hidkeyboard="ps2kbd"
uart1="off"
uart2="off"
lpt1="off"
lpt2="off"
audio="alsa"
clipboard="disabled"
draganddrop="disabled"
VideoMode="720,400,0"
vrde="off"
usb="on"
ehci="on"
VRDEActiveConnection="off"
VRDEClients=0
GuestMemoryBalloon=0
GuestOSType="NetBSD"
GuestAdditionsRunLevel=0

Hardware: intel X5650  @ 2.67GHz on a supermicro X8DA3 board

Tru
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