From 47e4d194dc36adfcfd2577fa4630c9fcded005d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 19:15:06 +0100 Subject: IRC. --- hurd/running/virtualbox.mdwn | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'hurd/running') diff --git a/hurd/running/virtualbox.mdwn b/hurd/running/virtualbox.mdwn index 822f771d..23a0b156 100644 --- a/hurd/running/virtualbox.mdwn +++ b/hurd/running/virtualbox.mdwn @@ -40,7 +40,44 @@ To convert the image you need the VirtualBox package properly installed with a V If [[QEMU with KVM|qemu]] is not available, VirtualBox reportedly has better performance. -IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-10-31: + +# Open Issues + +## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-10-31 I don't know what virtualbox does with hardware emulation, but gnumach is awfully slow to probe things there + + +## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-09-28 + + the problem is if i giveit more than 1855 it says truncating to + that + so i give it that.. then it has kmem alloc error + 1536mb same.. 1024 isok + hum + that's weird + virtual box ? + yeah + i wonder what cpu features i should enable/disable + pae ? + make sure vbox doesn't count on the so called memory balloon + pae isn't used except on xen + disable apic + enable host io cache in disk controllers + do we have these written on the wiki? + no because i didn't run into these problems + but since i know the system well enough to avoid them in the first + place .. + we need real users to report them + i'm not sure we have anything about vbox in the wiki actually + ./hurd/running/virtualbox.mdwn + we seem to have a page at least + it seems to be okay with 1024MiB + still weird + looks more random than buggy with more memory + do you have the exact error message you got during your previous + attempts ? + no.. i should have taken a screenshot.. its easy enough to + reproduce though + i'll wait until after its installed -- cgit v1.2.3