VirtualBox/kernel broken?

[Julian H. Stacey]

Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:15:01 +0200
> Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn at freenet.de> wrote:
> 
> > So, I have a problem with VirtualBox and can't say whether it's a problem
> > with VirtualBox itself or something which has changed in the kernel.
> > 
> > I'm running FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT Wed Sep 16 11:40:19 CEST 2009 amd64.
> > 
> > I installed both the port and the latest stuff from svn.
> > 
> > The problem is with an installation of Windows 7 RC which was working
> > fine with an older version of the port (can't say from when, though)
> > AND of the kernel.
> > 
> > Today I decided to try the latest version of VirtualBox and the W7RC
> > fails upon booting with an internal VirtualBox error.
> > 
> > Strangely enough, if I start W7RC in repair mode it happily runs to
> > completion, but then the boot fails with the above mentioned error.
> > 
> > Booting from the ISO also fails.
> > 
> > I have all kinds of log files from VirtualBox which I can't parse.
> > 
> > Interestingly enough, the two Linux installations, which are from
> > about the same time as the W7RC installation, still run flawlessly.
> > 
> > Has anyone else seen any strangeness with the newer versions of VirtualBox
> > and a fairly recent 9.0-CURRENT?
> > 
> 
> Since I never got any response to this, I'll relate what I've found out.
> 
> If I turn off acceleration in Settings->System->Acceleration W7RC runs,
> although it's very slow.
> 
> Something broke somewhere, but I can't say whether in VirtualBox or the
> kernel.

Hi Gary, cc list.
I tried to see if I could cast light on the above, using my 7.2-RELEASE
kernel, + current/ports/emulators/virtualbox sources as of yesterday,
built yesterday.

I did dd bs=2k of my genuine Toshiba XP cdrom, tried to install it,
& got an error from Tosh/Mickeysoft
	"Wrong machine
	 This software is designed for
	 TOSHIBA Personal Computers"
As suspected, the XP that Toshiba sold bundled with my laptop is a
crippled version, looking for Toshiba hardware warts.  I assume
Virtualbox is providing a nice generic environment without Tosh warts.

(The above both running Virtualbox as normal user & root, from a
.iso file, I tried running VirtualBox from original cdrom in drive,
but failed, likely my user error).

I hope someone else can give you a more useful response.

Cheers,
Julian
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