booted -k -v ... all devices load fine, all 12 processors counted correctly, device kvm0 connected fine, console login prompt, type "root" and before I get to finish typing the password the keyboard is dead and the computer is hung ...
On 8 April 2013 17:31, Jonathan Adams <t12nsloo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 8 April 2013 17:23, Jim Klimov <jimkli...@cos.ru> wrote: > >> On 2013-04-08 18:12, Jonathan Adams wrote: >> >> I think you can load an older BE or a live media, mount the "current" >> BE, and pkgrm VirtualBox package from there? ;) >> > > Yeah I know ... but since it only takes 10 mins to do a re-install I'd go > for that first ... > > As it happens I can boot the VirtualBox be, but it's badly hung-over and > doesn't do nice things like DHCP by itself ... > > >> You might also try enabling kdb and verbosity (in GRUB) to review >> what is loaded and where this really hangs. >> > > I will try that again, I tried modifying the system with the system > settings from the wiki for diagnosing system hangs, but it just hung :) > > >> Still, if both hypervisors have a problem, maybe there's something >> wrong with the computer? Perhaps, VT-X not enabled in BIOS or wrong >> implementation (i.e. BIOS/Firmware update or downgrade needed)? >> > > brand new server arrived friday from Dell ... I could try that ... my boss > wants me to boot Ubuntu on it and try VirtualBox from there ... > > Funnily enough he has managed to get VirtualBox working on Solaris10u11 > (downloaded for personal use on a similar server in his own home) ... > > Can there be any hypervisor between BIOS and OI which captures the >> hardware acceleration features and nothing is left for your other >> solutions? >> > > Not that I'm aware of, and I've toggled pretty much everything in the BIOS > (with the exception of "Virtualization" which is enabled) with no success. > > Hmm ... > > Jon > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss