VirtualBox guest panic in ACPI

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 26/03/2011, at 17:47, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> I tried running a -current (r219926) release in VirtualBox and got a panic.

I found that modifying the VM with..
VBoxManage modifyvm Installer\ test --hpet on --ioapic on

Makes it boot.

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> acpi0: could not allocate interrupt
> ACPI Exception: AE_ALREADY_EXISTS, Unable to install System Control Interrupt handler (20110316/evevent-137)
> acpi: Could not enable ACPI: AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
> device_attach: acpi0 attach returned 6
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> http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/Screen%20shot%202011-03-26%20at%2017.40.12%20.png
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> Backtrace:
> http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/Screen%20shot%202011-03-26%20at%2017.37.38%20.png
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> If I boot after setting hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" it then panics with "No usable event timer" (there are errors about being unable to allocate an IRQ prior to the panic)
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> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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