On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Manne Merak wrote:

Hi all, I am new to ArchLinux, a longtime OpenSUSE and Slax user looking for a change. Before I commit I usually want to try with a LiveCD or VirtualBox.  Cant find a LiveCD and VirtualBox booting the ISO gives a Kernel Panic. Anyone that can help me?

Manne

Have you tried booting the livecd with qemu ? It works fine for me. -- Alexandre Bique

Thomas Bächler wrote:

Manne Merak schrieb:

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Hi all, I am new to ArchLinux, a longtime OpenSUSE and Slax user looking for a change. Before I commit I usually want to try with a LiveCD or VirtualBox. Cant find a LiveCD and VirtualBox booting the ISO gives a Kernel Panic. Anyone that can help me?

I think I booted the Live CD successfully with VirtualBox. Which version did you use, did you use any special settings? What kind of kernel panic is happening?

I downloaded this ISO, archlinux-2009.02-core-i686.iso And tried booting in VirtualBox 1.6.2. Kernel panic as follows: BUG: unable to handle kernel <1>Bug: unable handle kernel <1>:......................... It goes on like that for about 6 lines. Manne

Dieter Plaetinck wrote:

On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:03:26 +0200 Manne Merak wrote:

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Thomas Bächler wrote:

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Manne Merak schrieb:

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Hi all, I am new to ArchLinux, a longtime OpenSUSE and Slax user looking for a change. Before I commit I usually want to try with a LiveCD or VirtualBox. Cant find a LiveCD and VirtualBox booting the ISO gives a Kernel Panic. Anyone that can help me?

I think I booted the Live CD successfully with VirtualBox. Which version did you use, did you use any special settings? What kind of kernel panic is happening?

I downloaded this ISO, archlinux-2009.02-core-i686.iso And tried booting in VirtualBox 1.6.2. Kernel panic as follows:

BUG: unable to handle kernel <1>Bug: unable handle kernel <1>:.........................

It goes on like that for about 6 lines.

Manne

Well, first thing to try is upgrading Vbox. 1.6 is quite old. The latest version is 2.1.4 or something afaik.

Dieter

Solved. Enabled VT-x and disabled ACPI. Thanks Manne

On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:30:01 +0200 Thomas Bächler wrote:

Manne Merak schrieb:

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Well, first thing to try is upgrading Vbox. 1.6 is quite old. The latest version is 2.1.4 or something afaik.

Dieter

Solved. Enabled VT-x and disabled ACPI.

I don't have the possibility to enable VT, but I remember that Linux and ACPI had problems sometimes in old VirtualBox versions. With the latest version, it should work with ACPI though. Happy testing.

Sadly, many bugs that happen with Arch in VMs seem to only happen in VMs, but never on real machines, this has improved in VirtualBox lately.

Well, for release testing it's better like that. It sucks if all works fine in VM's and then breaks massively on real machines :) maybe we should start keeping a list of "known problems with VM's" Dieter