Virtual machine installation issue.

[Gedare Bloom]

I think these are "host" issues.  I had some issues with Ubuntu.  I
found that I had to disable the KVM as well, by `modprobe -r
kvm_intel` or whatever the right command is to remove the kvm module
from the host kernel.  This allowed the VBox image to make use of the
virtualization extensions.

Still it takes a long time to load.

-Gedare

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Ralf Corsepius
<ralf.corsepius at rtems.org> wrote:
> Preliminary remark: I am not familiar with VirtualBox.
>
> On 05/07/2010 04:11 PM, Kim George wrote:
>>
>> I think I solved my first problem but a new problem has manifested itself.
>> On the first issue, I thought the machine was hung, but I noticed under the
>> session information dialogue that the virtual machine was reading data. I
>> let the machine run for about 15 minutes "hung" on the cursor and it finally
>> came up with the following error:
>>
>> "This kernel requires the following feature not present on the cpu:
>> pae/nx"
>
> Is this the Fedora guest, which is issuing this message?
>
> Then it's not  unlikely you installed a Fedora kernel which is incompatible
> to your VM. Fedora i386 comes with different kernels-variants. The default
> one is a pae-enabled kernel (package name
> kernel-pae-*).
>
>> Turns out this is a known error as described here for Ubuntu 8.10 (Still a
>> problem with 9.10 obviously):
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox/Installation
>>
>> The workaround on VirtualBox version 3.1.6 is to enable pae/nx feature.
>> Right click on the fedora machine you've setup (must be shutdown) follow the
>> path:
>> settings>  system>  processor>  enable pae/nx
>>
>>
>> The system boots now however after a while it arrives with the following
>> error:
>> "prefdm respawning too fast stopped"
>>
>> The screen goes blank and the boot process hangs.
>
> Possible, but I am having doubts it accutally hangs (Did you try to log into
> a console (Ctl-Alt-F<N>?).
>
> This message normally means that something went wrong with starting the
> display/desktop manager (typically gdm). The causes for this can be
> manifold.
>
>> From reading through Fedora forums it appears to be a problem with a
>> failure of the X-configuration as described here:
>> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=188317
>
> Yes, a broken/bogus xorg.conf is not unlikely the origin of such issues.
>
>> The workaround appears to be to rename the xorg.conf file?????
>
> Well, I guess you actually mean to remove xorg.conf or to rename it into a
> backup file.
>
> This may well make sense, because Fedora's xorg is equipped with automatic
> GPU detection, which should enable xorg to automatically detect its required
> settings. This works in many standard configurations, but occasionally fails
> badly.
>
> In the latter case you need an xorg.conf and may even manually tune it.
>
>> Does anyone have any ideas how I could go about doing this for a virtual
>> system?
>
> My advice: Try switching to a console (Ctrl-Alt-F<n>) and try checking your
> Fedora's /var/log/boot.log, /var/log/dmesg, /var/log/message and
> /var/log/xorg*.log. These are not unlikely to provide you with further
> hints.
>
> Another way to get you further is to try booting into an
> X11-less/console-only runlevel (Normally being done by appending a "3"
> (runlevel 3) to your kernel's command line).
>
> Ralf
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