Craig Rodrigues
2012-Apr-16 07:08 UTC
VirtualBox problem booting FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso
Hi,
I am trying to run FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso
inside VirtualBox and am having some problems.
The error messages I am getting are similar to the ones mentioned here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-December/065079.html
My host environment
==================
Operating System: Windows 7, home edition, 64-bit
VirtualBox for Windows, version 4.1.12 r77245
CPU Information
===============
I downloaded the CoreInfo.exe utility which is part of Windows
Sysinternals utilities
( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb545027 )
According to this utility, my CPU is:
=========================================================== Intel(R)
Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5450 @ 1.66GHz
Intel64 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 13, GenuineIntel
HTT * Hyperthreading enabled
HYPERVISOR - Hypervisor is present
VMX - Supports Intel hardware-assisted virtualization
SVM - Supports AMD hardware-assisted virtualization
EM64T * Supports 64-bit mode
===========================================================
So my CPU support 64-bit mode, but does not support hardware-assisted
virtualization.
Error message
============If I try to mount and then boot it under VirtualBox, I get this
error:
CPU doesn't support long mode
Consoles: internal video/keyboard
BIOS drive C: is disk0
BIOS 639kB/523264kB available memory
FreeBSD/x86 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
(root@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu, Tue Jan 3 06:51:49 UTC 2012)
Can't work out which disk we are booting from.
Guess BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk0:
FATAL: int13_harddisk: function 42. Can't use 64bits lba
Does anyone know how to fix this problem in VirtualBox?
QEMU for Windows
===============
Just to try something else, I downloaded QEMU 0.9.0 for Windows from:
http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/
I extracted the zip file into a directory: C:\local\qemu-0.9.0-windows
I then ran:
cd c:\local\qemu-0.9.0-windows
qemu-system-x86_64.exe -L . -m 128 -cdrom
c:\temp\FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso
The ISO booted up just fine. From the dmesg output, this was the emulated CPU:
CPU: QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.9.0 (1666.98-MHz K8-class CPU)
Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x623 Family = 6 Model = 2 Stepping =
3
Features=0x78bfbfd<FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,SE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2>
Features2=0x1<SSE3>
AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM>
Does anyone know how I can get VirtualBox to behave the same way
as QEMU for FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso?
Thanks.
--
Craig Rodrigues
rodrigc@crodrigues.org
Claudius Herder
2012-Apr-16 07:20 UTC
VirtualBox problem booting FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso
On 16/04/12 09:08, Craig Rodrigues wrote:> Hi, > > I am trying to run FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso > inside VirtualBox and am having some problems. > > The error messages I am getting are similar to the ones mentioned here: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-December/065079.html > > > > > My host environment > ==================> > Operating System: Windows 7, home edition, 64-bit > VirtualBox for Windows, version 4.1.12 r77245 > > CPU Information > ===============> > I downloaded the CoreInfo.exe utility which is part of Windows > Sysinternals utilities > ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb545027 ) > > According to this utility, my CPU is: > ===========================================================> Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5450 @ 1.66GHz > Intel64 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 13, GenuineIntel > HTT * Hyperthreading enabled > HYPERVISOR - Hypervisor is present > VMX - Supports Intel hardware-assisted virtualization > SVM - Supports AMD hardware-assisted virtualization > EM64T * Supports 64-bit mode > ===========================================================> > So my CPU support 64-bit mode, but does not support hardware-assisted > virtualization. > > > > Error message > ============> If I try to mount and then boot it under VirtualBox, I get this error: > > CPU doesn't support long mode > > Consoles: internal video/keyboard > BIOS drive C: is disk0 > BIOS 639kB/523264kB available memory > > FreeBSD/x86 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 > (root@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu, Tue Jan 3 06:51:49 UTC 2012) > Can't work out which disk we are booting from. > Guess BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk0: > FATAL: int13_harddisk: function 42. Can't use 64bits lba > > > > Does anyone know how to fix this problem in VirtualBox? > > > > > QEMU for Windows > ===============> > Just to try something else, I downloaded QEMU 0.9.0 for Windows from: > > http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/ > > I extracted the zip file into a directory: C:\local\qemu-0.9.0-windows > > I then ran: > > cd c:\local\qemu-0.9.0-windows > qemu-system-x86_64.exe -L . -m 128 -cdrom > c:\temp\FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso > > The ISO booted up just fine. From the dmesg output, this was the emulated CPU: > > CPU: QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.9.0 (1666.98-MHz K8-class CPU) > Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x623 Family = 6 Model = 2 Stepping = 3 > Features=0x78bfbfd<FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,SE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2> > Features2=0x1<SSE3> > AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM> > > > > > Does anyone know how I can get VirtualBox to behave the same way > as QEMU for FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso? > > Thanks. > > -- > Craig Rodrigues > rodrigc@crodrigues.org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"Hi, you can only use 64-bit guests if you have a cpu which supports hardware acceleration.>From VirtualBox manual:VirtualBox's 64-bit guest support (added with version 2.0) and multiprocessing (SMP, added with version 3.0) both require hardware virtualization to be enabled. (This is not much of a limitation since the vast majority of today's 64-bit and multicore CPUs ship with hardware virtualization anyway; the exceptions to this rule are e.g. older Intel Celeron and AMD Opteron CPUs.) https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch10.html#hwvirt -- Claudius
Bernhard Froehlich
2012-Apr-16 07:24 UTC
VirtualBox problem booting FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso
On 16.04.2012 09:08, Craig Rodrigues wrote:> Hi, > > I am trying to run FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso > inside VirtualBox and am having some problems. > > The error messages I am getting are similar to the ones mentioned > here: > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-December/065079.html > > [snip] > > Error message > ============> If I try to mount and then boot it under VirtualBox, I get this > error: > > CPU doesn't support long mode > > Consoles: internal video/keyboard > BIOS drive C: is disk0 > BIOS 639kB/523264kB available memory > > FreeBSD/x86 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 > (root@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu, Tue Jan 3 06:51:49 UTC 2012) > Can't work out which disk we are booting from. > Guess BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to > disk0: > FATAL: int13_harddisk: function 42. Can't use 64bits lbaPlease create a new VM with preset Operating System "BSD" and Version "FreeBSD (64 bit)". -- Bernhard Froehlich http://www.bluelife.at/
Thomas Ronner
2012-Apr-16 07:50 UTC
VirtualBox problem booting FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso
On 04/16/2012 09:08 AM, Craig Rodrigues wrote:> So my CPU support 64-bit mode, but does not support hardware-assisted > virtualization.Intel doesn't support 64 bit software-only virtualization. You really need VTX for this to work. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization#64-bit Regards, Thomas
Craig Rodrigues
2012-Apr-17 03:30 UTC
VirtualBox problem booting FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> wrote:> My host environment > ==================> > Operating System: Windows 7, home edition, 64-bit > VirtualBox for Windows, version 4.1.12 r77245 > > CPU Information > ===============> > I downloaded the CoreInfo.exe utility which is part of Windows > Sysinternals utilities > ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb545027 ) > > According to this utility, my CPU is: > ===========================================================> ? ?Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU ? ? T5450 ?@ 1.66GHz > ? ?Intel64 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 13, GenuineIntel > ? ?HTT ? ? ? ? * ? ? ? Hyperthreading enabled > ? ?HYPERVISOR ?- ? ? ? Hypervisor is present > ? ?VMX ? ? ? ? - ? ? ? Supports Intel hardware-assisted virtualization > ? ?SVM ? ? ? ? - ? ? ? Supports AMD hardware-assisted virtualization > ? ?EM64T ? ? ? * ? ? ? Supports 64-bit mode > ===========================================================> > So my CPU support 64-bit mode, but does not support hardware-assisted > virtualization. > > > > Error message > ============> If I try to mount and then boot it under VirtualBox, I get this error: > > ? CPU doesn't support long mode > > ? Consoles: internal video/keyboard > ? BIOS drive C: is disk0 > ? BIOS 639kB/523264kB available memory > > ? FreeBSD/x86 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 > ? (root@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu, Tue Jan ?3 06:51:49 UTC 2012) > ? Can't work out which disk we are booting from. > ? Guess BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk0: > ? FATAL: int13_harddisk: function 42. Can't use 64bits lba > > > > Does anyone know how to fix this problem in VirtualBox?Hi, After exchanging a few e-mails with Bernard, I think I understand the problem. According to the VirtualBox manual: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03.html#intro-64bitguests The CPU needs to support hardware-assisted virtualization in order for VirtualBox to support 64-bit guests. Without the CPU support, VirtualBox cannot do it. I double checked this with CoreInfo.exe from Windows Sysinternals utilities, and also from the Intel data sheet for my CPU: http://ark.intel.com/products/30787 (VT-x option not supported) I will use QEMU under Windows until I can get a better machine. :) -- Craig Rodrigues rodrigc@crodrigues.org -- Craig Rodrigues rodrigc@crodrigues.org