OpenSolaris [Stuck] - Sun xVM VirtualBox - Guru Meditation - critical error

[piers lauder]

after installing OpenSolaris in a virtual machine, received a critical error pop-up shortly after first reboot.

logs attached.

[piers lauder]

VBox.log

[piers lauder]

VBox.png

[Frank Mehnert]

In case this Guru meditation occurs again, please attach the content of the kernel log at the host as well (dmesg).

[jkeil]

I get exactly the same sort of "Guru Meditation -1149 (VERR_EM_INTERNAL_ERROR)" error when booting the pre-release opensolaris 2008.11 LiveCD (based on snv_97) in a vbox 2.0.2 guest.

My host is running OpenSolaris SXCE (build 96), on an AMD64 X2 cpu, AMD-V is enabled. There are no messages (dmesg) reported by the opensolaris kernel.

The opensolaris guest is automatically booting the 64-bit kernel. The SATA controller is enabled for the guest, and a 8GB virtual HDD is configured on SATA port 0.

Btw. when I force booting the 32-bit guest opensolaris kernel, by editing the kernel$ grub boot command line and removing the "$ISADIR/" part, there is no such guru mediation error.

And another workaround is to configure the virtual HDD as a PATA disk, in this case the 64-bit opensolaris guest doesn't crash with guru mediation error, either.

[jkeil]

Isn't this a duplicate of #2292 ?

[Frank Mehnert]

Please post the output of the host kernel log (dmesg). Most likely there are kernel messages.

[Frank Mehnert]

Uhm, I did not read carefully enough, sorry.

[piers lauder]

I agree this seems to be a duplicate of #2292. And the solution suggested above works for me (turning off SATA allows me to boot up OpenSolaris ok)

Thanks.