Re: OpenSolaris boot failure with KVM and VirtualBox

From: Sid Boyce
Date: Sun Jul 26 2009 - 14:15:36 EST


On 26/07/09 17:13, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 07/16/2009 10:30 AM, Sid Boyce wrote:
>> I first tried using kernel 2.6.31-rc1 on openSUSE 11.2 Milestone1 on a
>> 4P box. All other VM's, Windows and Linux work, currently running
>> openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 3 with 2.6.31-rc3. Verified the .iso is good.
>> Error message
>> =============
>> Booting 'OpenSolaris 2009.06'
>> kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix
>> loading '/platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix' ...
>> cpu: 'AuthenticAMD' family 16 model 4 step 2 ...
>> [BIOS accepted mixed-mode target setting!]
>> [Multiboot-kernel, loadaddr=0xbffe38, text-and-data=0x1b1ff0, bss=0x0,
>> entry=0xc00000]
>> 'platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix' is loaded
>> module$ /boot/$ISADIR/x86.microroot
>> loading '/boot/$ISADIR/x86.microroot' ...
>> Error 15: File not found
>> Press any key to continue ...
>> Regards
>> Sid.
>>
>
> Please copy kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on kvm issues.
>
> Is this a regression from previous kernel versions? What userspace are
> you using?
>

Currently running 2.6.31-rc4 with the original kqemu-1.4.0pre1 on
openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 4 and it boots OK - a 200G disk image used.
qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom /ISO/osol-0906-ai-x86.iso -boot d
/osol0906.qcow2 -smp 4 -m 500M &
Regards
Sid.
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