Hi Alexander, Your solution of removing the modules kvm and kvm_intel worked perfectly. Thank you very much!
Best regards, Jim On Fri, 9 May 2008, Alexander Eichner wrote: > Hello Jim, > > it seems that you have the kvm modules loaded. > VirtualBox does not work then. > Unfortunately the kvm detection is broken in 1.6.0. > If you just unload kvm and kvm_intel or kvm_amd > VirtualBox should work. > > Kind regards, > Alexander Eichner > >> Am Donnerstag, den 08.05.2008, 20:29 -0700 schrieb James A. Benson: >>> Hello, >>> >>> On a FC8 64 bit 2 cpu (really 2 cpus, not just cores) >>> I am getting a General protection fault when trying to >>> install a new guest into a virtual box. >>> The Virtual box itself installation worked fine. >>> I installed VirtualBox-1.6.0_30421_fedora8-1.x86_64.rpm. >>> It is at the point that it normally reads the guest OS >>> disk and starts installing it that i get the problem. >>> A 64 bit Vista guest or a 32 bit XP guest disk shows >>> the same problem. I did a bit off googling on this problem. >>> Acting on a few of the google hits, I have tried gnome >>> (normally i use kde...same problem) and checked my bios to >>> make sure VM is enabled. Any one have any suggestions? >>> I include the var/log/messages relevant portion and the >>> VBox.log below. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> Jim >>> _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
