Paul Johnston wrote: > Hi > I am running Solaris Express Community Edition snv_97 > in a VBox 2.0 with the host OS > SunOS hb.humanities.manchester.ac.uk 5.11 snv_95 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris > OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv_95 X86 > > On booting the Virtual Box I get the message: > WARNING: cpu: failed to update microde from version 0x0 to 0x17 >
I see the same sort of warnings on vbox-2.0.2 hosted on x64-darwin-9.5.0 for I assume that the vbox enviroment doesn't support changing the [microcode][] loaded into the CPU (the part of the CPU that is actually programmable) at this point. Presumably OpenSolaris compensates, but it would be interesting to hear from a more technical OpenSolaris developer what the performance/security implications might be. [microcode]: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcode Mark <evenson at panix.com> -- "A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare to it now."
