[arch-general] Solved: VirtualBox

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:30:01 +0200
Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:

> Manne Merak schrieb:
> >> 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