Latest -CURRENT/i386 could not start under VirutalBox 4.1.18 and
4.2 (Windows host): hangs up after atrtc0 detection
Garrett Cooper
yanegomi at gmail.com
Wed Sep 19 21:57:31 UTC 2012
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Ian Lepore
<freebsd at damnhippie.dyndns.org> wrote:
...
> Yes, exactly. I updated the PR to request that my patch not get
> committed because it locks up virtualbox. I hope to find time soon to
> learn enough about installing/configuring virtualbox to figure out what
> the problem is (offhand,I suspect it hangs in the loop that probes for
> the need to re-index, because vbox doesn't quite emulate the hardware
> behavior fully).
Why not just detect VBox and disable that functionality? VMware at
least has a sane way of determining whether or not you're running it
based on the SMBios ident..
Thanks!
-Garrett
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