On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 08:01:57 +0700 Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote:
> On Dec 5, 2011 7:55 AM, "Harry Putnam" <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > > > > Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> writes: > > > > > On Dec 5, 2011 7:19 AM, "Harry Putnam" <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > > >> > > >> Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: > > >> > > >> > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: > > >> > > > >> > [...] > > >> > > > >> >> A Gentoo VM on a Linux host works fine here with the same > > >> >> setup. > Let's > > >> >> examine the host settings first as that affects booting too. > > >> >> > > >> >> What settings do you have on the System and Storage tabs on > > >> >> the VBox host for that vm? > > >> > > > >> > I guess the easiest is to post screen shots of those tabs: > > >> > > > >> > www.jtan.com/~reader/vu2/disp.cgi > > >> > > > >> > I did notice that on System tab the chipset is listed as piix3 > > >> > and on Storage Tab it shows `type' as PIIX4. At first there > > >> > were no other choices on the drop downs, so I assumed it was > > >> > ok like that... now I see the dropdown on Storage has gotten > > >> > populated since I last tried it. > > >> > > > >> > I set it to match the System `chip' PIIX3... but still the same > > >> > failure. > > >> > > > >> > Maybe those are not related to the problem? > > >> > > >> Haa... that google hit I mentioned about resetting bootable with > > >> gparted worked... Now bootup starts. But the same old sorry bs > > >> I have always hit with gentoo when trying to setup a vm is now > > >> present and accounted for... > > >> > > >> www.jtan.com/~reader/vu1/disp.cgi > > >> > > > > > > Seems to be a case of missing driver to me :-) > > > > Yes it is, and its missing because I have no idea what it wants. > > Do you? > > > > I'm still on my way to the office, so I can't for sure tell you > what, but IIRC if you use Vbox's default settings for a Gentoo Linux > VM, it's ICH9. At least on a Linux host, PIIX works fine for Linux guests. Performance sucks rather majorly[1], but it does at least work. [1] "sucks" meaning lots of IOwaiting resulting in top showing excessive load figures on the host. Probably a case of PIIX not being optimized and running very generic, slow, code. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
