Re: Tricks for install OpenBSD under Virtualbox, host Windows XP
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi, I installed Virtualbox 2.2.4 and everything is 100%. You hope so but make it clear if you ever hit problems that you are not on bare metal as bug reports have been looked at and been found to be the fault of Virtualbox in the past with Theo commenting on their forum that he couldn't believe any OS would allow what it was doing with memory. I didn't speak up because others have said it's fixed, I wonder now if it is just the VT-X that fixed Virtualbox. Also, Windows XP (which the original poster is using) is very old, and very close to end-of-life. Hosting virtualization on it, for an inherited non-commercial project which Oracle inherited from Sun, is unlikely to be a long-term stable solution for anything, especially on XP. Not that Virtualbox is bad, I use it extensively myself for personal virtualization. But it means that he should make sure that his disk images are compatible with other vortia;ozatopm tpp;s, and that his backups of his OpenBSD system or of the disk image are working well, in case VirtualBox fails with new releases and he needs to host it elsewhere.
Re: Tricks for install OpenBSD under Virtualbox, host Windows XP
Hi, I installed Virtualbox 2.2.4 and everything is 100%. You hope so but make it clear if you ever hit problems that you are not on bare metal as bug reports have been looked at and been found to be the fault of Virtualbox in the past with Theo commenting on their forum that he couldn't believe any OS would allow what it was doing with memory. I didn't speak up because others have said it's fixed, I wonder now if it is just the VT-X that fixed Virtualbox. It seems the newer version of Virtualbox is confused by my hardware/host os combination and cannot deal with the VT-X, even though it's enabled in my bios. The same applies to Vmware but if you do have any panics etc. you may wish to try it. I've used it reliably even without VT-X with OpenBSD. I prefer Virtualbox though because it doesn't constantly eat all your space and pause the thing if you run out and hacks to fix this are said to reduce reliability. -- ___ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) ___
Re: Tricks for install OpenBSD under Virtualbox, host Windows XP
On 2013-01-06 17:06, Steve Williams wrote: Hi, After recently reading (on this list) about how OpenBSD runs under Virtualbox, I thought I would take it for a test drive on my laptop so I can work in OpenBSD while away on business don't have access to the Internet. My laptop is a Dell Latitude E6500 with a Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU (P8600). I have enabled the Virtualization support in the bios. The host system is Windows XP. When I start VirtualBox, I get a dialogue box that says: - VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration has been enabled, but is not operational. Certain guests (e.g. OS/2 and QNX) require this feature. Please ensure that you have enabled VT-x/AMD-V properly in the BIOS of your host computer. - When I got this message, I disabled the Enable VT-x/AMD-V in the settings of the VM for OpenBSD, but I still get that message. It's a bit confusing. I am trying to install OpenBSD-current (downloaded January 6, 2013). It will get various distances into installing before I get an error. I've even got as far as defining the partitions and the format starting, but it either gives an Illegal Instruction, or a kernel panic. The Intel website indicates it supports VT-x (http://ark.intel.com/products/35569?wapkw=core+2+duo+p8400) It does, but why didn't you try enabling VT-x in the BIOS of your host computer, just like the dialog suggested? Any suggestions/tricks, or am I just out of luck with this combination of hardware/guest OS/OpenBSD? Thanks, Steve -- Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
Re: Tricks for install OpenBSD under Virtualbox, host Windows XP
On 01/08/2013 12:49 AM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: On 2013-01-06 17:06, Steve Williams wrote: My laptop is a Dell Latitude E6500 with a Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU (P8600). I have enabled the Virtualization support in the bios. It does, but why didn't you try enabling VT-x in the BIOS of your host computer, just like the dialog suggested? Seems like he already tried that.
Re: Tricks for install OpenBSD under Virtualbox, host Windows XP
Hi, I installed Virtualbox 2.2.4 and everything is 100%. It seems the newer version of Virtualbox is confused by my hardware/host os combination and cannot deal with the VT-X, even though it's enabled in my bios. Thanks for all the hints. It took a bit of magical google incantations and reading between the lines to arrive at this solution. Cheers, Steve On 1/6/2013 1:06 PM, Steve Williams wrote: Hi, After recently reading (on this list) about how OpenBSD runs under Virtualbox, I thought I would take it for a test drive on my laptop so I can work in OpenBSD while away on business don't have access to the Internet. My laptop is a Dell Latitude E6500 with a Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU (P8600). I have enabled the Virtualization support in the bios. The host system is Windows XP. When I start VirtualBox, I get a dialogue box that says: - VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration has been enabled, but is not operational. Certain guests (e.g. OS/2 and QNX) require this feature. Please ensure that you have enabled VT-x/AMD-V properly in the BIOS of your host computer. - When I got this message, I disabled the Enable VT-x/AMD-V in the settings of the VM for OpenBSD, but I still get that message. It's a bit confusing. I am trying to install OpenBSD-current (downloaded January 6, 2013). It will get various distances into installing before I get an error. I've even got as far as defining the partitions and the format starting, but it either gives an Illegal Instruction, or a kernel panic. The Intel website indicates it supports VT-x (http://ark.intel.com/products/35569?wapkw=core+2+duo+p8400) Any suggestions/tricks, or am I just out of luck with this combination of hardware/guest OS/OpenBSD? Thanks, Steve
Tricks for install OpenBSD under Virtualbox, host Windows XP
Hi, After recently reading (on this list) about how OpenBSD runs under Virtualbox, I thought I would take it for a test drive on my laptop so I can work in OpenBSD while away on business don't have access to the Internet. My laptop is a Dell Latitude E6500 with a Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU (P8600). I have enabled the Virtualization support in the bios. The host system is Windows XP. When I start VirtualBox, I get a dialogue box that says: - VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration has been enabled, but is not operational. Certain guests (e.g. OS/2 and QNX) require this feature. Please ensure that you have enabled VT-x/AMD-V properly in the BIOS of your host computer. - When I got this message, I disabled the Enable VT-x/AMD-V in the settings of the VM for OpenBSD, but I still get that message. It's a bit confusing. I am trying to install OpenBSD-current (downloaded January 6, 2013). It will get various distances into installing before I get an error. I've even got as far as defining the partitions and the format starting, but it either gives an Illegal Instruction, or a kernel panic. The Intel website indicates it supports VT-x (http://ark.intel.com/products/35569?wapkw=core+2+duo+p8400) Any suggestions/tricks, or am I just out of luck with this combination of hardware/guest OS/OpenBSD? Thanks, Steve
Re: Tricks for install OpenBSD under Virtualbox, host Windows XP
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Steve Williams st...@williamsitconsulting.com wrote: Hi, After recently reading (on this list) about how OpenBSD runs under Virtualbox, I thought I would take it for a test drive on my laptop so I can work in OpenBSD while away on business don't have access to the Internet. My laptop is a Dell Latitude E6500 with a Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU (P8600). I have enabled the Virtualization support in the bios. The host system is Windows XP. When I start VirtualBox, I get a dialogue box that says: - VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration has been enabled, but is not operational. Certain guests (e.g. OS/2 and QNX) require this feature. Please ensure that you have enabled VT-x/AMD-V properly in the BIOS of your host computer. - When I got this message, I disabled the Enable VT-x/AMD-V in the settings of the VM for OpenBSD, but I still get that message. It's a bit confusing. I am trying to install OpenBSD-current (downloaded January 6, 2013). It will get various distances into installing before I get an error. I've even got as far as defining the partitions and the format starting, but it either gives an Illegal Instruction, or a kernel panic. The Intel website indicates it supports VT-x (http://ark.intel.com/products/35569?wapkw=core+2+duo+p8400) Any suggestions/tricks, or am I just out of luck with this combination of hardware/guest OS/OpenBSD? Thanks, Steve Did you try a stable version? It could be an issue with the snapshot you're using. -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse
Re: Tricks for install OpenBSD under Virtualbox, host Windows XP
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/639#comment:9 On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Aaron Mason simplersolut...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Steve Williams st...@williamsitconsulting.com wrote: Hi, After recently reading (on this list) about how OpenBSD runs under Virtualbox, I thought I would take it for a test drive on my laptop so I can work in OpenBSD while away on business don't have access to the Internet. My laptop is a Dell Latitude E6500 with a Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU (P8600). I have enabled the Virtualization support in the bios. The host system is Windows XP. When I start VirtualBox, I get a dialogue box that says: - VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration has been enabled, but is not operational. Certain guests (e.g. OS/2 and QNX) require this feature. Please ensure that you have enabled VT-x/AMD-V properly in the BIOS of your host computer. - When I got this message, I disabled the Enable VT-x/AMD-V in the settings of the VM for OpenBSD, but I still get that message. It's a bit confusing. I am trying to install OpenBSD-current (downloaded January 6, 2013). It will get various distances into installing before I get an error. I've even got as far as defining the partitions and the format starting, but it either gives an Illegal Instruction, or a kernel panic. The Intel website indicates it supports VT-x (http://ark.intel.com/products/35569?wapkw=core+2+duo+p8400) Any suggestions/tricks, or am I just out of luck with this combination of hardware/guest OS/OpenBSD? Thanks, Steve Did you try a stable version? It could be an issue with the snapshot you're using. -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse -- You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.
