On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 11:59 AM David Higgs <[email protected]> wrote:
> I often use VirtualBox (version 5.2.18 on OS X) to familiarize myself > with new features in snapshots, before upgrading my physical hardware. > > This afternoon, I tried updating bsd.rd (amd64, 6.4-beta RAMDISK_CD > #281) and wasn't able to successfully boot it. I had to rely on the > video capture ability of VirtualBox to even notice there was a panic > (typed out below) before it rebooted to the "BIOS" splash screen. > ... > Also attached is the dmesg from a prior working snapshot. I haven't > tried updating since this prior snapshot, so I don't have further > insight into when the issue first appeared. > Thank you for the complete and clear report! I have a diff in the amd64 snapshots to use the CPU's PCID support in many cases and this VirtualBox setup found a bug in it. I've generated a new diff that should fix this, so a future snap should fix this, though when that'll happend depends on the snap builder's schedule. Philip Guenther
