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Re: OSX virtualbox 3 beta still dumps core on NetBSD 5.0 release .iso



Christoph Egger wrote:
> Liam J. Foy wrote:
>> Matthias Scheler wrote:
>>> On 20 Jun 2009, at 8:48, David Holland wrote:
>>>>> I don't know what it is about this particular virtualization platform on
>>>>> OSX but its not a good fit for NetBSD right now.
>>>> I don't think anyone really knows what the problem is.
>>> Well, I'm inclined to blame this on VirtualBox as NetBSD works
>>> like a charm under VMware Fusion.
>>>
>>>     Kind regards
>>>
>> And Parallels doesn't like NetBSD either. This isn't a compliant :).
> 
> Maybe they don't implement unaligned or cross-page accesses properly
> into their shadow paging ?
> 
> Since Xen does this right, NetBSD/amd64 boots as HVM guest.
> 
> Christoph

I don't know, sorry.

Although I do recall it failing at the same place for both Parallels and
Virtualbox.

-- 
Liam J. Foy
NetBSD Developer <liamjfoy%netbsd.org@localhost>


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