Joe Auty wrote:
Is it possible that the kernel panic might have been triggered by my CentOS host having "divider=10" set within Grub? I was messing around with clock skew issues some time ago and was experimenting whether adding this to the host (in addition to the guest) made a difference. I never got around to removing this. This was rather stupid of me, and I'll probably remove this anyway, but I'm wondering if with this change it might be worth it to try Virtualbox again?

To the person that said that Vbox is working perfectly for them in RHEL 5.4, have you tried upgrading to 3.2.2? Since I'm on 3.2.2 I'm wondering if this newer version is to blame? I'm happy to run 3.2.0 if this will help :)


One more variable that may also be completely irrelevant, but just for the sake of being thorough, my VMs I'm running are VMDK images that used to be running under VMWare using VMWare's SCSI controller. I'm using Virtualbox's SATA controller with these same disk images.


Joe Auty wrote:
Alexey Eremenko wrote:
This is quite hard to tell...
Not surprised... Sorry I can't do a better job at providing more info. Like I said, this is not a great machine to be doing this sort of testing on, but if we can identify something obvious I'm happy to try this out after hours.

because I have RHEL 5.4, x64 host working perfectly with VBox 3.2.0, so there should be no problem.

plz do
# uname -a
and
# cat /proc/cpuinfo
# uname -a
Linux myhostname 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 #1 SMP Tue Dec 16 11:57:43 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

As you can see this is temporarily the CentOS 5.2 kernel, I rebooted back into this for testing purposes. I was able to reproduce this kernel panic while booted into both this kernel and the CentOS 5.5 kernel (2.6.18-194.3.1.el5). The machine has 10 gig of RAM.



# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 23
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5405  @ 2.00GHz
stepping        : 6
cpu MHz         : 2000.101
cache size      : 6144 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 4
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 4
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 10
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips        : 4010.10
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 38 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 23
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5405  @ 2.00GHz
stepping        : 6
cpu MHz         : 2000.101
cache size      : 6144 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 4
core id         : 1
cpu cores       : 4
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 10
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips        : 4000.19
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 38 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor       : 2
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 23
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5405  @ 2.00GHz
stepping        : 6
cpu MHz         : 2000.101
cache size      : 6144 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 4
core id         : 2
cpu cores       : 4
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 10
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips        : 4000.28
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 38 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor       : 3
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 23
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5405  @ 2.00GHz
stepping        : 6
cpu MHz         : 2000.101
cache size      : 6144 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 4
core id         : 3
cpu cores       : 4
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 10
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips        : 4000.36
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 38 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:


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