On 04/04/2010 08:45 AM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > Hi, > > Whenever I tried VirtualBox (even back in Fedora 11) it completly > locked up my machine as soon as powering up a VM. > I didn't care a lot, but now I am in trouble because I need it now and > VMware-Player refuses to install (waits forever in the > install-scripts) and VirtualBox crashes :/ > I am now on Fedora-12 + updates testing, and I am using the VirtualBox > packages + kernel modules provided by Fedora/yum. > > Any ideas what the problem could be? > > > In syslog I found this: > >> vboxdrv: Warning: 2.6.31+ kernel detected. Most likely the hardware performance >> vboxdrv: counter framework which can generate NMIs is active. You have to prevent >> vboxdrv: the usage of hardware performance counters by >> vboxdrv: echo 2 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_counter_paranoid >> > However at least 2.6.32.10 doesn't seem to provide perf_counter_paranoid :( > > Thank you in advance, Clemens > Are you using Virtualbox or Virtualbox OSE. I am using Virtualbox 3.1.6 downloaded from Sun with Windows XP with the 2.6.32.10 kernel. I've had no problems with Virtualbox. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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