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Created attachment 488880 [details] Screenshot of crash Description of problem: I want to install Fedora 15 Alpha on Virtualbox 4.0.0 r69151 on a Mac OS X Snowleopard box. The installation DVD image Fedora-15-Alpha-x86_64-DVD.iso hangs after the initial boot menu where you select "Install a new system"; the kernel starts and then hangs partway through. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora-15-Alpha-x86_64-DVD.iso How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a virtual box 2. Attach dvd image to the virtual cdrom device 3. Boot 4. Select 'install' (default option) in boot menu Actual results: Hangs Expected results: ... Additional info: See attached screen shot of hung system.
I can confirm that the same problem occurs with Fedora 15 beta installing on Virtualbox v4.0.4 running on Windows 7 Home Premium. The hang occurs whether booting normally or with 'basic video driver'. The last line displayed on screen during the attempted normal boot is: [ 3.255596] [<c040377e>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10 The virtual machine was created using the default settings for Fedora Linux.
(In reply to comment #1) > > The virtual machine was created using the default settings for Fedora Linux. And what are those settings?
It's the install disk. You virtually insert it in the virtual cdrom drive, start the virtual machine, and press the virtual enter key. *Those* default settings. No command line tweaking.
Whoops, sorry, I'm tired. I don't know about Chris's virtualbox settings, but my virtualbox settings are contained in the screenshot, along with the hung virtual console, which didn't die at the same point as Chris's did.
As requested, here are the default settings for Fedora Linux in Virtualbox 4.0.4: Base memory: 512MB Dynamically expanding virtual hard disk Initial hard disk size: 8GB
(In reply to comment #5) > As requested, here are the default settings for Fedora Linux in Virtualbox > 4.0.4: > > Base memory: 512MB > Dynamically expanding virtual hard disk > Initial hard disk size: 8GB Fedora 15 Beta requires 1GB for network install. (The Alpha required 1GB for all methods.)
Reconfigured the virtual machine to 1024MB of RAM and Fedora 15 Beta installed successfully. Thanks for the info, Chuck. However, on logging in after the successful installation, Gnome 3 failed to launch but did not specify why. I increased the video memory allocation from the default (12MB) to the maximum (128MB) in the virtual machine but got the same result. (Should this be logged as a new bug?)
Chris, I think you're right, what you've found should be logged as a new bug, so that it gets the attention it deserves. The original bug I logged had 8GB of RAM, 17MB of video memory, and 38GB of disk.
Installed Fedora 15 Beta on VirtualBox 4.0.6 on a Fedora 14 base, system hangs at some point and process on base needs to be killed. RAM 1512 MB Video 128 MB disk (ext3) normal 18GB VT-x/AMD-V, Nested Paging, PAE/NX lucky to get 2 minutes of uptime
running yum/package kit will trigger the fault is more than approximately 10 items are to be updated
We really don't support booting on Virtualbox. Can you reproduce any of these problems on a KVM host?
I'll try; can you point me to a good KVM tutorial? A major part of my problem is that our office is 100% mac based, and we're trying to switch over to Linux in stages. Of the three Mac-hosted virtualization solutions (VMware, Parallels, VirtualBox) only VirtualBox is open source. I've just seen mentions of running MacOSX under KVM, but that would still be a pretty big leap for the folks in THIS office. I realize that the crash must be due to imperfect virtualization, and therefore VirtualBox's problem, but please realize that this is the only way to convert Mac users to Linux using only free software. It's free advertising; it lets you try before you buy and look before you leap. It'll make you see angels. The first hit is free. Unfortunately they're kinda strapped for Linux kernel developers over at VirtualBox, and could use any hints they can get. If it helps, I can definitely confirm that Fedora 14 and 13 work perfectly; I use and have used them as my daily desktop, it's just Fedora 15 beta that fails during the install. Thanks
Are you trying to boot the installation disc in EFI mode? (Settings -> System -> Enable EFI) You could try disabling that, and/or adding "noefi" to the boot options when starting the install disc.
built a new VirtualBox 4.0.6 instance of Fedora 15 beta 32 bit graphic acceleration off EFI and IO_APIC off PAE/NX on VT-x on, nested pages off 1 GB RAM, 64 MB video VDI - 12GB fixed, /boot - ext2, / - ext3 otherwise default yum-presto removed, looked like it caused an OOM on initial connection network bridged - Pro1000 otherwise default vbox additions installed system works rather than 90s uptime yum-presto seems to be more trouble that benefits
F15 has been released for quite a while now and we cannot update installation media. It seems most of the issues here were cleared up one way or another, so I'm going to close this bug out (particularly given that most of them were reported using virtualbox).