Re: Installing NetBSD on Virtual Box

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 06:03:50PM +0200, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am a new user. I want to install NetBSD on a virtual machine
> (Virtual Box) so I can experiment with it a little. I downloaded the
> 5.0.2 ISO and I booted my VM from that ISO. I chose option 1 "Install
> NetBSD" and soon after I found myself staring at a nasty-looking error
> in place of an installer. Here are the last few messages:

This was fixed in VirtualBox a long time ago.  Maybe they did not actually
fix it for some of their feature combinations which they set per-CPU.

What is the exact host CPU, and does it support VT-x/AMD-V?

VirtualBox 3.2.g works great for me with NetBSD-5 on an Intel Core 2 Duo
system with OS/X host OS and the NetBSD VM configured like this:

        Operating System:       BSD
        Version:                NetBSD
        Processors:             2
        VT-X/AMD-V:             Enabled
        Nested Paging:          Disabled
        Enable I/O APIC:        yes
        Enable PAE/NX:          yes

This is with the i386 port of NetBSD but I have tested the amd64 port in
the past and it worked, too.

Thor