Fedora 8 x86_64 install crashes on SMP box (Guru meditation)

[Keyzer Suze]

Hi

I have been attempting to install fedora 8 x86_64 dvd onto a vb machine that is hosted on a large SMP box (8 socket with quad core amd's).

It gets to the end (most of the time) and then send me into guru meditation error land.

I have attached the log and png files

[Keyzer Suze]

log file

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png

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Please note, I took the same image over to my laptop (no smp, but dual core intel) and it worked without a flaw

[Keyzer Suze]

Just to add the VM seems to be working fine on the SMP after the install ?

[Frank Mehnert]

Please could you try to reproduce this problem again and add a dmesg dump to this defect after the problem occurred?

[Keyzer Suze]

This has syslog dmes VBox.log VBox.png

[Keyzer Suze]

I have uploaded a tar bz file with

/var/log/syslog /var/log/dmesg VBox.log VBox.png machine defintion

The machine Crashed again! Whilst I was trying to get another machine to crash for this information.

[Keyzer Suze]

I have 2 vm running at the same time, my original VM, which seems to be working okay. and my new vm where I am trying to reproduce the problem.

What I have noticed (tried this twice so far), is the second vm works okay, but the first vm crashs guru meditation !

I tried it one more time, but I did a pause and a snapshot of the 2nd vm, this actually made the 2nd vm unbootable ???

This doesn't look like its going to be simple to run down :)

[Frank Mehnert]

This is an AMD box and you enabled AMD-V. Please could you check if fixes your problems?

[Keyzer Suze]

Yep its a AMD box, I believe that I already have amd-v turned on, that is the only way to run x86_64 guests I thought

[Frank Mehnert]

Sorry, what i wanted to say (but forgot to write) was: Please could you check if VBox 2.0.2 fixes your problem? Because there were several AMD-V-related fixes in this version.

[Keyzer Suze]

Hi

I have installed 2.0.2 and I haven't had any more problem as yet. (apart from the networking one - filed under a different bug report)

but I haven't had a n opportunity to do a fresh install

[Frank Mehnert]

So I will close this bug for now. Please reopen if this Guru meditation occurs again for you (with version 2.0.2).