APIC frequency too slow, disabling apic timer

[M. Schinkel]

Recent guest kernels give the following output in the kernel log:

CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 6144K
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad  CPU   Q9550  @ 2.83GHz stepping 07
..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=0 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
APIC timer calibration result 0
Detected 0.000 MHz APIC timer.
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WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c:46 clockevent_delta2ns+0x83/0x90()
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.27.6-perimeter #2

Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff80226d6f>] warn_on_slowpath+0x5f/0xa0
 [<ffffffff804596cc>] printk+0x4e/0x5a
 [<ffffffff80554cde>] setup_IO_APIC+0x4a0/0x9bd
 [<ffffffff80305750>] delay_loop+0x0/0x30
 [<ffffffff802427e3>] clockevent_delta2ns+0x83/0x90
 [<ffffffff80553a52>] setup_boot_APIC_clock+0x148/0x1bb
 [<ffffffff80553be1>] APIC_init_uniprocessor+0x11c/0x158
 [<ffffffff8054e4c3>] kernel_init+0x4b/0xdc
 [<ffffffff8020c279>] child_rip+0xa/0x11
 [<ffffffff8054e478>] kernel_init+0x0/0xdc
 [<ffffffff8020c26f>] child_rip+0x0/0x11

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APIC frequency too slow, disabling apic timer

[Frank Mehnert]

Please attach the VBox.log file of such a VM session.

[bird]

This typically happens if you don't enable the IO-APIC. The VBox.log will tell for sure.

[Frank Mehnert]

No response, closing.