kernel panic with VirtualBox on -CURRENT

Adam K Kirchhoff adamk at voicenet.com
Wed Jun 17 16:16:06 UTC 2009


Lucius Windschuh wrote:
> 2009/6/17 Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk at voicenet.com>
>   
>> Unfortunately, I do not see an option in this computers' BIOS to enable virtualization.  I'm actually trying on a machine at work now, rather than the one I tried at home yesterday, but the results are the same.  This computer actually has as an Intel Core 2 Quad CPU (unlike yesterdays dualcore Xeon).  Is there someway to check if the processors on these machines support the virtualization extensions?
>>
>> I also am not able to disable the AMD-V option in VirtualBox.  The check box is selected but greyed out.
>>     
>
> "Me too". Same panic on an Atom board (i386 mode). Same greyed out checkboxes.
> Are you also using i386?
> If I remember correctly, VT-x / AMD-V only work on amd64, so
> VirtualBox shouldn't use them anyway in my case. And disabling VT-x in
> a machine's XML file leads to the same panic.
>
> Interestingly, it worked before with virtualbox_3.tgz.
>   

Yes. I am using i386 (though both machines could run AMD64).

Are you using -CURRENT?  If so, from when?

Adam



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