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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 <youpi> 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 + + <snadge> the problem is if i giveit more than 1855 it says truncating to + that + <snadge> so i give it that.. then it has kmem alloc error + <snadge> 1536mb same.. 1024 isok + <braunr> hum + <braunr> that's weird + <braunr> virtual box ? + <snadge> yeah + <snadge> i wonder what cpu features i should enable/disable + <snadge> pae ? + <braunr> make sure vbox doesn't count on the so called memory balloon + <braunr> pae isn't used except on xen + <braunr> disable apic + <braunr> enable host io cache in disk controllers + <youpi> do we have these written on the wiki? + <braunr> no because i didn't run into these problems + <braunr> but since i know the system well enough to avoid them in the first + place .. + <braunr> we need real users to report them + <braunr> i'm not sure we have anything about vbox in the wiki actually + <youpi> ./hurd/running/virtualbox.mdwn + <youpi> we seem to have a page at least + <snadge> it seems to be okay with 1024MiB + <braunr> still weird + <braunr> looks more random than buggy with more memory + <braunr> do you have the exact error message you got during your previous + attempts ? + <snadge> no.. i should have taken a screenshot.. its easy enough to + reproduce though + <snadge> i'll wait until after its installed |