Unstable virtualization

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Fri May 31 13:03:40 UTC 2013


On 05/31/2013 02:09 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> On the 32GB Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz system,
> yesterday's rsync f19  VMr install successfully installed OpenDesktop 5.07
> from a CDROM image.  The only problem was the inability to
> access NFS shares on the local machine.
> 
> From today's rsync I did another fresh install.  (Pxeboot install over
> a gigabyte local net is convenient and fast!)  This time
> the VM install stalled after the "Booting from DVD/CD" message,
> consuming 100 per cent of one of the 8 CPUs.
> 
> Meanwhile, VirtualBox-4.2.12-84980-Linux_amd64.run installed
> without problems today and installed OpenDesktop without
> issues.  I didn't check today, but yesterday OpenDesktop was
> able to mount an NFS share on the host machine.
> 
> On the 6 GB Core Duo e6500 machine, VM install stalled
> ina video init script.  VirtualBox worked normally on that
> machine also.

Any reason you are using VirtualBox instead of Fedora's own qemu/KVM
solution?  This is the wrong list for fixing VirtualBox bugs.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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