Host OS (OS X 10.6.1) panic when booting 8.0-RC2 in VirtualBox 3.0.10

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Saturday 31 October 2009 21:06:36 Matthias Rampke wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Matthias Rampke
>
> <matthias.rampke at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have been experiencing reproducible kernel panics in Mac OS X 10.6.1
> > when booting 8.0-RC1 and -RC2 (amd64) in a VirtualBox VM.
> >
> > I had a (mostly pristine) 7.2-RELEASE running in this VM and tried to
> > upgrade to 8.0-RC2 with freebsd-update.
>
> This does not happen in a new, freshly installed VM. Now it hangs at
> usbus initialization, but I suppose that's a different story (the
> pains of using USB with VirtualBox, they never end).
>
> Any ideas what went wrong with the update?

Hi,

I just booted FreeBSD 8.0 RC-2 the live ISO in Virtual box (3.0.8) on a MAC 
and I don't see any problems. Are you sure that the /boot/kernel/ is free from 
stale modules from FreeBSD 7.x ?

--HPS