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

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