Re: Panic with VirtualBox 2.1

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Darren Reed <darrenr%netbsd.org@localhost> 
> wrote:
> > With a new release of VirtualBox that almost looks worthwhile, I decided
> > to try installing NetBSD. Unfortunately the -current i386.iso that I can
> > download seems to panic while booting...
> >
> > attimer0: attached to pcppi0
> > uvm_fault(0xc0a19000,0,1) -> 0xe
> > fatal page fault in supervisor mode
> > trap type 6 code 0 eip c0100d08 cs 8 eflags 246 cr2 0 ilevel 0
> > kernel: supervisor trap page fault, code=0
> > Stoppd in pid 0.13 (system) at netbsd:spllower+0x28:    lock addl
> > %eax,0(%eax)
> [...]
> > Us this a known generic issue with -current or new with VBox?
>
> I tried recently a similar thing on a Fedora 10 x86_64 host and
> couldn't get NetBSD current to boot, neither i386 nor amd64. I think I
> have never been able to boot NetBSD in VirtualBox...

        I believe NetBSD-4 worked with ACPI disabled. I think it would be
        very helpful for NetBSD if someone with the necessary clue were to
        track this down - VirtualBox and qemu allow people to easily play
        with NetBSD...

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