Re: Virtual NetBSD installer hang

[Adam Hoka <adam.hoka%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:37:44 +0000 (UTC)
Jerry James <loganjerry%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> I'm in the midst of creating a bunch of virtual machines in order to check
> portability of a project.  I've run into trouble with a NetBSD virtual 
> machine.
>  It hangs at boot in the installer.  I'm hoping that someone will recognize 
> the
> symptoms and give me a boost in the right direction.
> 
> The host machine is an amd64 running Linux (Fedora 13).  The guest is a KVM
> machine with 1 virtual CPU and 2 GB of RAM.  I have tried turning off both 
> ACPI
> and APIC, but it has made no difference.  Other virtual hardware:
> - Cirrus Logic video card with 9MB
> - pcnet Ethernet card
> - PS/2 mouse
> - SB16 sound card (also tried with no sound card at all)
> 
> I have tried installing both NetBSD 5.0.2 and 5.1_RC2, with identical 
> results. 
> I also attempted to install 4.0.1, but the installer fell into a constant 
> reboot
> cycle almost immediately.  I couldn't see the console messages very well,
> because they were visible for such a short time, but I saw something about a
> timer manipulation resulting in a time in the future.
> 
> With both 5.0.2 and 5.1_RC2, these are the messages visible on the console 
> when
> it hangs.  The output and resulting hang are identical when using install
> options 1, 2, and 3.
> 
> vga0 at pic0 dev 2 function 0: vendor 0x1013 product 0x00b8 (rev. 0x00)
> wsdisplay0 at vga0 kbdmux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
> drm at vga0 not configured
> vendor 0x1af4 product 0x1002 (RAM memory) at pci0 dev 3 function 0 not 
> configured
> pcn0 at pci0 dev 4 function 0: AMD PCnet-PCI Ethernet
> pcn0: Am79c970A PCnet-PCI II rev 0, Ethernet address 52:54:00:63:3c:a9
> pcn0: interrupting at irq 11
> pcn0: 10base5, 10base5-FDX, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, auto, auto-FDX
> isa0 at pcib0
> com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
> pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
> pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
> pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
> wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
> pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
> pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
> wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0
> attimer0 at isa0 port 0x40-0x43: AT Timer
> pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
> midi0 at pcppi0: PC speaker (CPU-intensive output)
> sysbeep0 at pcppi0
> fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
> attimer0: attached to pcppi0
> 
> 
> I let it sit at that point for 15 minutes, just in case, but it never printed
> another message.  If this is a known problem, a pointer to a discussion
> somewhere would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.
> 

If you are using VirtualBox, you are hitting this bug:
http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3947

See the last comment for a solution.

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